UEFI boot hangs after loader

[Toomas Soome]

you should have the binaries in boot - just ln (or copy) one to loader.efi

rgds,
toomas

> On 23 Oct 2018, at 23:22, Harry Newton <hn at yewbarrow.net> wrote:
> 
> Yes ... so as everything is built, can I just alter LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP in /etc/make.conf and then reinstall just the loader and boot parts onto the UEFI partition ?  If so, how ?
> 
> 
> On 23 October 2018 at 21:17, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com <mailto:tsoome at me.com>> wrote:
> ok, in that case I’d suggest to test out if forth based one is still working - at least you can get the bootable system. And then there is a chance to debug the lua version too (note it should be possible to chain /boot/loader_lua.efi).
> 
> rgds,
> toomas
> 
> > On 23 Oct 2018, at 23:08, Harry Newton <hn at yewbarrow.net <mailto:hn at yewbarrow.net>> wrote:
> > 
> > So it's got FORTH in it, but my loader is lua based, and also doesn't
> > appear to read loader.rc.
> > 
> > /H
> > 
> > On 23 October 2018 at 21:03, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com <mailto:tsoome at me.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >> hm. in that case, whats the content of /boot/loader.rc ?
> >> 
> >> rgds,
> >> toomas
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 23 Oct 2018, at 23:01, Harry Newton <hn at yewbarrow.net <mailto:hn at yewbarrow.net>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> If boot menu is the screen where you get the options for various kernels
> >> and the picture of the daemon head, no.  It stops at the point in my email
> >> — though not as I said just before the kernel is loaded but in point of
> >> fact before the menu.
> >> 
> >> I've also rebuilt the kernel and still can't use efibootmgr which is
> >> puzzling me.
> >> 
> >> /H
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 23 October 2018 at 20:56, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com <mailto:tsoome at me.com>> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Do you get boot menu? if so, press esc to get to ok prompt, then type
> >>> start - if its bootfort based loader, it will load the kernel and modules.
> >>> lsmod will then list the loaded files.
> >>> 
> >>> If the loader prompt is still usable, then next command would be: boot
> >>> 
> >>> rgds,
> >>> toomas
> >>> 
> >>>> On 23 Oct 2018, at 20:45, Harry Newton <hn at yewbarrow.net <mailto:hn at yewbarrow.net>> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> Just upgraded my Asus UX303L (amd64) from 11-STABLE to 12.0-BETA1
> >>> r339529
> >>>> by source.  Have a problem with booting which hangs after:
> >>>> 
> >>>>>> FreeBSD EFI boot block
> >>>> Loader path: /boot/loader.efi
> >>>> 
> >>>> Initializing modules: ZFS UFS
> >>>> Probing 5 block devices ... done
> >>>> ZFS found the following pools: zroot
> >>>> UFS found no partitions
> >>>> Consoles: EFI console
> >>>> FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
> >>>> 
> >>>>   Command line arguments: loader.efi
> >>>>   EFI version 2.31
> >>>>   EFI Firmware: American Megatrends (rev 4.654)
> >>>>   Console: efi(0)
> >>>>   Load Path: HD(4, GPT [ ... ]
> >>>>   Load Device: Pci Root [ ... ]
> >>>>   Boot Current: 0001
> >>>>   Boot Order: 0001 [x]
> >>>>   Boot Info Path: HS(1, GPT,  [ ... ]  /\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
> >>>> -
> >>>> 
> >>>> So it gets into loader.efi which runs but stops I think just before
> >>> loading
> >>>> the kernel.  Partitions:
> >>>> 
> >>>> =>       40  250069600  ada0  GPT  (119G)
> >>>>        40       1600     1  efi  (800K)
> >>>>      1640       1024     2  freebsd-boot  (512K)
> >>>>      2664       1432        - free -  (716K)
> >>>>      4096    4194304     3  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)
> >>>>   4198400  245870592     4  freebsd-zfs  (117G)
> >>>> 250068992        648        - free -  (324K)
> >>>> 
> >>>> and the EFI partition is FAT 12.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I can't provide (at the moment) any output from efibootmgr:
> >>>> 
> >>>> root at gryphon:~ # efibootmgr -v
> >>>> efibootmgr: efi variables not supported on this system. root? kldload
> >>> efirt?
> >>>> root at gryphon:~ # kldload efirt
> >>>> kldload: can't load efirt: module already loaded or in kernel
> >>>> 
> >>>> which I don't understand.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I'm going to rebuild the kernel (currently GENERIC) and see if that
> >>> allows
> >>>> me to load efirt / use efibootmgr.
> >>>> 
> >>>> In the meantime, I should be very grateful for any advice.
> >>>> 
> >>>> ( Currently booting using a 11-RELEASE memstick image and dropping into
> >>> its
> >>>> loader to get to the installed 12-STABLE ).
> >>>> 
> >>>> /Harry
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> >> 
> >> 
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> >> 
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> Harry Newton