EFI, UEFI, PXE: FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso boot from SAN device failed, error 0x7f22208e

[Rick Miller]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 1:00 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 24/12/2020 13:44, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>
> > The network installation of 12.1 also fails, albeit slightly differently.
> >
> > For FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso I have even filmed the
> > process:http://admin.sibptus.ru/~/vas/VID_20201224_202519.mp4  (36
> seconds)
>
>
> Thanks. From the tail of the recording: <https://i.imgur.com/6NfzmZ4.jpg>
>
> …
> efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=0 size=8 status=16
> efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=32 size=68 status=16
> efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=15 size=65 status=16
> Failed to find bootable partition
> Boot from SAN device 0x80 failed: Error 0x7f22208e
> (http://ipxe.org/7f22208e)
> Unregistered SAN device 0x80
> Could not boot: Error 0x7f22208e (http://ipxe.org/7f22208e)
>
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>
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This is seemingly reminiscent of a problem I've observed with bootonly ISOs
from FreeBSD 9 through 12, which is documented in FreeBSD PRs 239876,
227808, 199197, 179312, and 169919. See comment 22 in PR 227808 for a
description of how it might be overcome.

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Take care
Rick Miller