On 09/16/14 14:50, O. Hartmann wrote:
Am Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:09:01 -0700
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> schrieb:
On 09/15/14 22:51, O. Hartmann wrote:
Am Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:39:26 -0700
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> schrieb:
On 09/15/14 17:36, Allan Jude wrote:
On 2014-09-15 20:05, O. Hartmann wrote:
Installing FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20140903-r270990 on a Laptop works for
UEFI
fine. After I updated the sources to r271649, recompiled world and kernel (as
well
as installed), now I get stuck with the screen message:
FreeBSD EFI boot block
Loader path: /boot/loader.efi
and nothing happens. After a couple of minutes, the system reboots.
What happened and how can this problem be solved?
You might need to update the boot1.efi file on the UEFI partition (small
FAT partition on the disk)
I am not sure how 'in sync' boot1.efi (on the fat partiton) and
loader.efi have to be.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI
boot1.efi is designed never to need updating. (It also hasn't changed
since April)
-Nathan
But it has changed bytesize when I recompiled world with recent sources
compared to
the boot.efi size from the USB image I installed from (revision see above).
Probably compiler updates or something? I really wouldn't worry about it
too much. I'd worry more about loader, since we know boot1 could use the
console but loader doesn't show up.
How to update bootcode on UEFI layout? I created a GPT partition with type efi
(1 GB)
as well as a 512KB partition typed freebsd-boot.
How did you set it up in the first place? If you have a FreeBSD-only
system partition (like the installer sets up), you just dd
/boot/boot1.efifat to the EFI partition. Otherwise, it's FAT and you
copy /boot/boot1.efi to somewhere your boot manager can find it.
I'm new to EFI and the way the notebook now behaves is really strange. While
the USB
drive image used to boot with new console enabled, it now boots again with the
old
console and 800x640 resolution. This might indicate some minor but very
effective
mistake I made.
The EFI boot block finds the first UFS partition -- on any disk -- and
tries to boot from it. If you have multiple FreeBSD disks connected,
that will very likely result in madness.
-Nathan
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After I managed to install the OS and updated to the most recent world, it took
two days
to have all the installations prepared. Now I'm about the configure X11 and run
into
another very annoying situation.
The Laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 equipted with the following CPU/iGPU
and
dedicated GPU:
CPU Intel i5-4200M (Haswell) at 2.5 GHz with iGPU Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU: nVidia GT 740M mobile GPU.
EFI Version 2.31
EFI Firmware: Lenovo (rev. 05648)
In the Firmware/EFI/BIOS the primary GPU is selected to be the nVidia GT 740M.
Boot is
EFI only, no CSM support. With CSM support enabled a VGA screen with 640x400
pixel shows
up. Non UEFI options doesn't boot this system at all!
Any attempt to bring up the nVidia GPU (starting X for testing) ends up in a
blank
screen, stuck mousepointer, no keyboard. I even can not switch to another
console!
When X server started the first time on tty9, I can switch to another console.
But the
moment I switch back to ttyv9 everything is frozen and as described above.
Try xf86-video-scfb instead?
When the system boots, I do not see a loader! Where is the loader I'm used to
see when I
have the chance to switch to single user mode, console or switch off ACPI?
There is no beastie menu for UEFI, and will not be, since it UEFI's
terminal emulation does not provide the required features. You can boot
single user from the loader command line, however, with boot -s, for
example. The interface is identical to what you get if you choose
"Loader prompt" in the usual menu.
Because I need X11 up (and it should be running on the nVidia GPU for
performance
reasons), I tried to get back to the legacy "sc" console in textmode since I
read about
several issues and immature vt() system, so I put those lines in the
/boot/loader.conf:
hw.vga.textmode=1
hw.vty=sc
(tried also hw.vty=vt).
But with either of those lines in the loader thing get more annoying and nasty:
The
system doesn't show even a console, it is stuck with this sparse EFI boot
message, last
lines are
dimensions xxxx x yyyy
stride xxxx
masks 0xfffffff [...]
and the rest of the screen is blank. System remains unusable, the HDD is
working and
obviously booting the system but incapable of presenting a screen. When booting
the USB
drive image, this initial EFI message gets overwritten (no screen blanking, the
kernel
messages starts writing over this message like in the first days of computers
...). In
the case described above that doesn't happen at all.
syscons does not support UEFI systems at all. Since it can't initialize
the VGA hardware, you get a blank screen. hw.vga.textmode also won't
have any effect since EFI systems don't use the vga driver for console,
instead using an EFI-provided framebuffer structure through the vt_efifb
driver.
After I deleted.commented out the lines
hw.vga.textmode=1
hw.vty=sc
in loader.conf the system is booting again - and clears the initial EFI
messages before
dumping the screen with kernel messages, as expected.
Well, at the end, it seems I sit in front of two days useless labor, new
hardware, UEFI
and no X11.
One thing you might want to try that got my Haswell laptop up is to use
the x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb driver. This uses the vt framebuffer
directly. It's more or less the equivalent of the VESA driver since it
is unaccelerated, but it will work. We really need actual Haswell
graphics drivers (I suspect they are required to get the multiple GPU
handoff to work as well).
-Nathan
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