UEFI boot failure with VMware Workstation 16 and 12.2Beta3

[Roger Leigh]

On 30/09/2020 17:44, Roger Leigh wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
>
> I've been testing FreeBSD 12.2Beta3 (amd64) with VMware Workstation 16 
> on Windows 10, and encountered an issue which looks to be related to 
> the UEFI console (see attached screenshot).
>
> It's quite possible this is a VMware UEFI bug rather than a FreeBSD 
> bug, and I've mentioned this to VMware here: 
> https://communities.vmware.com/thread/643481 but I wanted to mention 
> it here in case it's triggered by the FreeBSD UEFI support doing 
> something slightly incorrect which triggers this misbehaviour.
>
> I also tested with the latest 12.1 release image and this behaviour is 
> not triggered with 12.1p1 or p10.
>
One additional detail to mention.  The installer didn't trigger the 
bug.  It booted from UEFI perfectly and the installer ran to 
completion.  This issue was only triggered after I booted into the new 
installation.


Kind regards,

Roger