Re: ffs_fhtovp: inode overflow?

2019-12-11 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:26:41AM -0600, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> Since ino64 went in, Coverity complains that the two "ino >= foo" 
> comparisons in ffs_fhtovp() compare a 64-bit value to a 32-bit.  Is this 
> a problem in practice?

I do not think that this a problem, and Coverity could be a bit smarter
there.

The ino variable is 64bit, but why is it worrysome to compare it with a
32 bit value ?   We want to limit the value to the max possible inode
number but still keep it type-correct.

In fact, the ino value is initialized from 32bit struct ufid ufid_ino,
so Coverity could understand that and shut down the warning for formal
reasons.
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Re: Supermicro X9SCV-Q: no boot options to define

2019-12-11 Thread Miroslav Lachman

Hartmann, O. wrote on 2019/12/11 19:07:


The AMI BIOS is at 2.10.1208 from 4th Nov 2012. There is a newer
firmware available, but I can't install the firmware: while being able
to UEFI USB flahes, it is impossible to boot FreeDOS 1.1 from an USB
flash drive, even having properly set Legacy Boot ROM in PCIe/PnP/etc
options in the firmware. I never have had such a confusing
BIOS/firmware.


Did you try to boot some ISO media through IPMI remote media option?
I don't know if X9SCV-Q have this option. I have X9SCA-F which is 
somewhat different than yours.


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Re: Supermicro X9SCV-Q: no boot options to define

2019-12-11 Thread Hartmann, O.
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:48:22 +0100
Gary Jennejohn  wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:23:59 +0100
> "Hartmann, O."  wrote:
> 
> > Hello folks,
> > 
> > my apology for polluting this list with a non-FreeBSD specific
> > problem, but since Supermicro is a veryy often used vendor in the
> > FreeBSD user/developer community I might find help here much fast.
> > 
> > I got hands on onto an oldish Supermicro X9SCV-Q mainboard, equipted
> > with an older i5-25XXM CPU running at 2,5 GHz). The AMI BIOS has
> > version 2.10.1208 from 2012.
> > The board does initially a longer beep and the it sounds like two
> > or three very short beeps plus a last longer beep at a higher tune
> > and then the system ALWAYS jumps into the firmware/BIOS screen, no
> > matter whether I set a administrator password to protect the BIOS
> > or not. Apart from the suspect of damaged RAM (three beeps indicate
> > RAM problem above the first 64k block, two indicate PEI recovery or
> > video memory problems if I interpret the manual correctly).
> > 
> > Sometimes the POST screen shows some message like "... in Recovery
> > State", due to the off-phased HDMI attached monitor, I do not see
> > the first characters. Maybe someone knows what that might indicate.
> > 
> > I already have changed the memory banks and the memory seems to be
> > allright as the replacement memory has been checked thoroughly
> > prior to the test in another well running box and I also checked
> > the memory on another box with memtest tool without any suspicious
> > indication.
> > 
> > The attempt to flash the latest firmware fails due to the fact that
> > I can not even define a boot device - either this process is
> > cryptic or it isn't documented and I'm too dull. A FreeDOS 1.1
> > prepared USB flashdrive  isn't bootable as any other UEFI/non UEFI
> > flashdrive: I can see the USB drive as being attached to PCI bus in
> > the firmware menu, I also can define a symbolic name, but then I
> > fail in defining the path to the loader as suggested in the example
> > (fs0:\file\loader.efi or so). Any hint is welcome.
> > 
> > This board has been used successfully over the past years and was
> > equipted with a TPM module at connector 23 (TMP1 header) - I'm
> > unfamiliar with those technologies and my first guess apart from a
> > hardware failure was that the hardware could have been protected
> > anyway like it is done via secure boot. Unplugging that TPM header
> > doesn' change anything.
> > 
> > Also the boot of XigmaNAS latest USB flashed image or any FreeBSD
> > (11, 12 CURRENT) latest USB flashed image failed so far.
> > 
> > Thanks for some help in adavnce,
> >   
> 
> Don't know whether this will help, but a user posted to a forum
> that he had this mainboard and couldn't boot any USB device no
> matter what the tried.
> 
> His final, working solution was:
> 
> 
> Further investigation found NOTHING would boot from USB.  I
> cleared CMOS, entered setup and loaded Optimized Defaults,
> rebooted, and VOILA!  Case closed.
> 
> *happy dance*
> 
> 
> BTW he was using VGA.
> 

Hello,
thanks for the tip. I already tried and did a reset. It seems that one
has to select first a propper boot option and there is the problem.
Once a media has been inserted either as a bootable disk, bootable USB
flash or (not tested) CDROM, the firmware offers at the option entry
Boot the option new boot entry. I have first to give the option a name,
then select from a (cryptic) list of definitions how the firmware
addresses the controler/device/partition/bootimage et ceterum (Select
File System) and then, the worst thing, Path for boot option. Leaving
this empty renders any USB UEFI formated flash device unbootable. For
FreeBSD booting, I had to issue "\efi\boot\bootx64.efi" - this worked
also with a preinstalled Windows10 HOME hdd I "borrowed" to test, so I
do not know the syntax of this option.
Knowing this, I was able to boot Xubuntu 19.04 from USB flash, XigmaNAS
12.1 from USB flash, Windows10 HOME from a HDD and I was luckily able
to boot one time XigmaNAS to install the software onto a SSD and even
this worked - until a certain point where FreeBSD fails!
Starting with FreeBSD 11.3-RELENG, FreeBSD 12.1-RELENG, FreeBSD
13-CURRENT, the box is bootimg and is then freezing at the point, where
the console shows EFI framebuffer informations (see PR 209821, 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209821). CURRENT
(r355406) is freezing while showing some ATA device details. 
 
The AMI BIOS is at 2.10.1208 from 4th Nov 2012. There is a newer
firmware available, but I can't install the firmware: while being able
to UEFI USB flahes, it is impossible to boot FreeDOS 1.1 from an USB
flash drive, even having properly set Legacy Boot ROM in PCIe/PnP/etc
options in the firmware. I never have had such a confusing
BIOS/firmware.

Thanks,
oh




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ffs_fhtovp: inode overflow?

2019-12-11 Thread Eric van Gyzen
Since ino64 went in, Coverity complains that the two "ino >= foo" 
comparisons in ffs_fhtovp() compare a 64-bit value to a 32-bit.  Is this 
a problem in practice?


Eric
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Re: any scheduler/ipi/wakeup bug fixed in the last year?

2019-12-11 Thread Hans Petter Selasky

I wonder if there have been any bug fixes in that area over the past year or so.
Any help and pointers are welcome.


Hi,

A long time ago I fixed an issue for ARM:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/265913

I've always wondered why x86 does some fixed amount of idle spins before 
going to sleep.


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Re: any scheduler/ipi/wakeup bug fixed in the last year?

2019-12-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
On 11/12/2019 13:05, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
...
>> tdq_oldswitchcnt = 26, tdq_lowpri = 92 '\\', tdq_ipipending = 0 '\000', 
>> tdq_idx
...

> What is the value of tdq_ipipending ?
> See https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22758

It's zero, so it's probably a different issue.


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Re: any scheduler/ipi/wakeup bug fixed in the last year?

2019-12-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
On 11/12/2019 12:48, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> So, if I am not confused, it appears like possibly a notification from a 
> waking
> CPU to the woken CPU (CPU3) was never delivered.
> Potentially, a problem with cpu_idle_wakeup() ?
> 
> I wonder if there have been any bug fixes in that area over the past year or 
> so.
> Any help and pointers are welcome.

Hardware:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz (2400.05-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x406f1  Family=0x6  Model=0x4f  Stepping=1
FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 14 core(s)

machdep.idle: acpi
machdep.idle_available: spin, mwait, hlt, acpi
machdep.idle_mwait: 1

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Re: any scheduler/ipi/wakeup bug fixed in the last year?

2019-12-11 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
> I am investigating a problem that originally looked like a ZFS I/O hang.
> But it quickly became obvious that the GEOM "up" queue was not being 
> processed.
> (kgdb) p g_bio_run_up
> $54 = {bio_queue = {tqh_first = 0xf801d8627178, tqh_last =
> 0xf80134751658}, bio_queue_lock = {lock_object = {lo_name =
> 0x80ad11ab "bio queue", lo_flags = 16973824, lo_data = 0, lo_witness =
> 0x0}, mtx_lock = 0}, bio_queue_length = 19}
> 
> The queue is unlocked and there are 19 bio-s on it.
> At the same time:
> (kgdb) tid 100125
> (kgdb) bt
> #0  sched_switch (td=0xf80111b23000, newtd=0xf801119d2000,
> flags=) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1997
> #1  0x80705405 in mi_switch (flags=, newtd=0x0) at
> /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:436
> #2  0x8074844a in sleepq_wait (wchan=, pri=)
> at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_sleepqueue.c:694
> #3  0x80704ed6 in _sleep (ident=0x81233d68 ,
> lock=0x810d72e0 , priority=,
> wmesg=0x80b417e4 "-", sbt=0, pr=0, flags=256) at
> /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:216
> #4  0x8067713c in g_io_schedule_up (tp=) at
> /usr/src/sys/geom/geom_io.c:908
> #5  0x8067772d in g_up_procbody (arg=) at
> /usr/src/sys/geom/geom_kern.c:99
> #6  0x806c64c1 in fork_exit (callout=0x806776c0 
> ,
> arg=0x0, frame=0xfe014cc87ac0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:1042
> 
> The "g_up" thread is sleeping as if the queue was empty.
> The code in g_io_schedule_up() and g_io_deliver() is obviously correct with
> respect to synchronizing the queue access and wait/wakeup.
> So, there must be something deeper.
> 
> I examined the struct thread and the related scheduling objects:
> (kgdb) p *td
> $57 = {td_lock = 0x810f3a00 , td_proc =
> 0xf801119cd590, td_plist = {tqe_next = 0xf80111b1f5e0, tqe_prev =
> 0xf80111b235f0}, td_runq = {tqe_next = 0x0,
> tqe_prev = 0x810f3bd8 }, td_slpq = {tqe_next = 0x0,
> tqe_prev = 0xf80100050280}, td_lockq = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev =
> 0xfe018e443998}, td_hash = {le_next = 0x0, le_prev = 0xfe014bab68e8},
>   td_cpuset = 0xf80111b3a618, td_domain = {dr_policy = 0x810d78d8
> , dr_iterator = 0}, td_sel = 0x0, td_sleepqueue =
> 0xf80100050280, td_turnstile = 0xf801a7ed8a80, td_rlqe = 0x0,
>   td_umtxq = 0xf80111b13e80, td_tid = 100125, td_sigqueue = {sq_signals =
> {__bits = {0, 0, 0, 0}}, sq_kill = {__bits = {0, 0, 0, 0}}, sq_ptrace = 
> {__bits
> = {0, 0, 0, 0}}, sq_list = {tqh_first = 0x0,
>   tqh_last = 0xf80111b230d8}, sq_proc = 0xf801119cd590, sq_flags =
> 1}, td_lend_user_pri = 255 '\377', td_flags = 4, td_inhibitors = 0, td_pflags 
> =
> 2097152, td_dupfd = 0, td_sqqueue = 0, td_wchan = 0x0,
>   td_wmesg = 0x0, td_owepreempt = 0 '\000', td_tsqueue = 0 '\000', td_locks = 
> 0,
> td_rw_rlocks = 0, td_sx_slocks = 0, td_lk_slocks = 0, td_stopsched = 0,
> td_blocked = 0x0, td_lockname = 0x0, td_contested = {lh_first = 0x0},
>   td_sleeplocks = 0x0, td_intr_nesting_level = 0, td_pinned = 0, td_ucred =
> 0xf80100082b00, td_limit = 0xf80100082a00, td_slptick = 0, td_blktick 
> =
> 0, td_swvoltick = -2139537593, td_swinvoltick = -2139537706, td_cow = 0,
>   td_ru = {ru_utime = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 0}, ru_stime = {tv_sec = 0, 
> tv_usec
> = 0}, ru_maxrss = 0, ru_ixrss = 0, ru_idrss = 0, ru_isrss = 0, ru_minflt = 0,
> ru_majflt = 0, ru_nswap = 0, ru_inblock = 0, ru_oublock = 0,
> ru_msgsnd = 0, ru_msgrcv = 0, ru_nsignals = 0, ru_nvcsw = 14113408,
> ru_nivcsw = 240828}, td_rux = {rux_runtime = 202213463115, rux_uticks = 0,
> rux_sticks = 10554, rux_iticks = 0, rux_uu = 0, rux_su = 36818497,
> rux_tu = 36818497}, td_incruntime = 46828278, td_runtime = 202260266673,
> td_pticks = 10557, td_sticks = 3, td_iticks = 0, td_uticks = 0, td_intrval = 
> 0,
> td_oldsigmask = {__bits = {0, 0, 0, 0}}, td_generation = 14354236,
>   td_sigstk = {ss_sp = 0x0, ss_size = 0, ss_flags = 0}, td_xsig = 0,
> td_profil_addr = 0, td_profil_ticks = 0, td_name = "g_up", '\000'  times>, td_fpop = 0x0, td_dbgflags = 0, td_si = {si_signo = 0, si_errno = 0,
> si_code = 0, si_pid = 0, si_uid = 0, si_status = 0, si_addr = 0x0, 
> si_value
> = {sival_int = 0, sival_ptr = 0x0, sigval_int = 0, sigval_ptr = 0x0}, _reason 
> =
> {_fault = {_trapno = 0}, _timer = {_timerid = 0, _overrun = 0},
>   _mesgq = {_mqd = 0}, _poll = {_band = 0}, __spare__ = {__spare1__ = 0,
> __spare2__ = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, td_ng_outbound = 0, td_osd = 
> {osd_nslots
> = 0, osd_slots = 0x0, osd_next = {le_next = 0x0, le_prev = 0x0}},
>   td_map_def_user = 0x0, td_dbg_forked = 0, td_vp_reserv = 0, td_no_sleeping =
> 0, td_su = 0x0, td_sleeptimo = 0, td_rtcgen = 0, td_sigmask = {__bits = {0, 0,
> 0, 0}}, td_rqindex = 23 '\027', td_base_pri = 92 '\\',
>   td_priority = 92 '\\', td_pri_class = 3 '\003', td_user_pri = 120 'x',
> td_base_user_pri = 120 'x', td_rb_list = 0, td_rbp_list = 

any scheduler/ipi/wakeup bug fixed in the last year?

2019-12-11 Thread Andriy Gapon


I am investigating a problem that originally looked like a ZFS I/O hang.
But it quickly became obvious that the GEOM "up" queue was not being processed.
(kgdb) p g_bio_run_up
$54 = {bio_queue = {tqh_first = 0xf801d8627178, tqh_last =
0xf80134751658}, bio_queue_lock = {lock_object = {lo_name =
0x80ad11ab "bio queue", lo_flags = 16973824, lo_data = 0, lo_witness =
0x0}, mtx_lock = 0}, bio_queue_length = 19}

The queue is unlocked and there are 19 bio-s on it.
At the same time:
(kgdb) tid 100125
(kgdb) bt
#0  sched_switch (td=0xf80111b23000, newtd=0xf801119d2000,
flags=) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1997
#1  0x80705405 in mi_switch (flags=, newtd=0x0) at
/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:436
#2  0x8074844a in sleepq_wait (wchan=, pri=)
at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_sleepqueue.c:694
#3  0x80704ed6 in _sleep (ident=0x81233d68 ,
lock=0x810d72e0 , priority=,
wmesg=0x80b417e4 "-", sbt=0, pr=0, flags=256) at
/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:216
#4  0x8067713c in g_io_schedule_up (tp=) at
/usr/src/sys/geom/geom_io.c:908
#5  0x8067772d in g_up_procbody (arg=) at
/usr/src/sys/geom/geom_kern.c:99
#6  0x806c64c1 in fork_exit (callout=0x806776c0 ,
arg=0x0, frame=0xfe014cc87ac0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:1042

The "g_up" thread is sleeping as if the queue was empty.
The code in g_io_schedule_up() and g_io_deliver() is obviously correct with
respect to synchronizing the queue access and wait/wakeup.
So, there must be something deeper.

I examined the struct thread and the related scheduling objects:
(kgdb) p *td
$57 = {td_lock = 0x810f3a00 , td_proc =
0xf801119cd590, td_plist = {tqe_next = 0xf80111b1f5e0, tqe_prev =
0xf80111b235f0}, td_runq = {tqe_next = 0x0,
tqe_prev = 0x810f3bd8 }, td_slpq = {tqe_next = 0x0,
tqe_prev = 0xf80100050280}, td_lockq = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev =
0xfe018e443998}, td_hash = {le_next = 0x0, le_prev = 0xfe014bab68e8},
  td_cpuset = 0xf80111b3a618, td_domain = {dr_policy = 0x810d78d8
, dr_iterator = 0}, td_sel = 0x0, td_sleepqueue =
0xf80100050280, td_turnstile = 0xf801a7ed8a80, td_rlqe = 0x0,
  td_umtxq = 0xf80111b13e80, td_tid = 100125, td_sigqueue = {sq_signals =
{__bits = {0, 0, 0, 0}}, sq_kill = {__bits = {0, 0, 0, 0}}, sq_ptrace = {__bits
= {0, 0, 0, 0}}, sq_list = {tqh_first = 0x0,
  tqh_last = 0xf80111b230d8}, sq_proc = 0xf801119cd590, sq_flags =
1}, td_lend_user_pri = 255 '\377', td_flags = 4, td_inhibitors = 0, td_pflags =
2097152, td_dupfd = 0, td_sqqueue = 0, td_wchan = 0x0,
  td_wmesg = 0x0, td_owepreempt = 0 '\000', td_tsqueue = 0 '\000', td_locks = 0,
td_rw_rlocks = 0, td_sx_slocks = 0, td_lk_slocks = 0, td_stopsched = 0,
td_blocked = 0x0, td_lockname = 0x0, td_contested = {lh_first = 0x0},
  td_sleeplocks = 0x0, td_intr_nesting_level = 0, td_pinned = 0, td_ucred =
0xf80100082b00, td_limit = 0xf80100082a00, td_slptick = 0, td_blktick =
0, td_swvoltick = -2139537593, td_swinvoltick = -2139537706, td_cow = 0,
  td_ru = {ru_utime = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 0}, ru_stime = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec
= 0}, ru_maxrss = 0, ru_ixrss = 0, ru_idrss = 0, ru_isrss = 0, ru_minflt = 0,
ru_majflt = 0, ru_nswap = 0, ru_inblock = 0, ru_oublock = 0,
ru_msgsnd = 0, ru_msgrcv = 0, ru_nsignals = 0, ru_nvcsw = 14113408,
ru_nivcsw = 240828}, td_rux = {rux_runtime = 202213463115, rux_uticks = 0,
rux_sticks = 10554, rux_iticks = 0, rux_uu = 0, rux_su = 36818497,
rux_tu = 36818497}, td_incruntime = 46828278, td_runtime = 202260266673,
td_pticks = 10557, td_sticks = 3, td_iticks = 0, td_uticks = 0, td_intrval = 0,
td_oldsigmask = {__bits = {0, 0, 0, 0}}, td_generation = 14354236,
  td_sigstk = {ss_sp = 0x0, ss_size = 0, ss_flags = 0}, td_xsig = 0,
td_profil_addr = 0, td_profil_ticks = 0, td_name = "g_up", '\000' , td_fpop = 0x0, td_dbgflags = 0, td_si = {si_signo = 0, si_errno = 0,
si_code = 0, si_pid = 0, si_uid = 0, si_status = 0, si_addr = 0x0, si_value
= {sival_int = 0, sival_ptr = 0x0, sigval_int = 0, sigval_ptr = 0x0}, _reason =
{_fault = {_trapno = 0}, _timer = {_timerid = 0, _overrun = 0},
  _mesgq = {_mqd = 0}, _poll = {_band = 0}, __spare__ = {__spare1__ = 0,
__spare2__ = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, td_ng_outbound = 0, td_osd = {osd_nslots
= 0, osd_slots = 0x0, osd_next = {le_next = 0x0, le_prev = 0x0}},
  td_map_def_user = 0x0, td_dbg_forked = 0, td_vp_reserv = 0, td_no_sleeping =
0, td_su = 0x0, td_sleeptimo = 0, td_rtcgen = 0, td_sigmask = {__bits = {0, 0,
0, 0}}, td_rqindex = 23 '\027', td_base_pri = 92 '\\',
  td_priority = 92 '\\', td_pri_class = 3 '\003', td_user_pri = 120 'x',
td_base_user_pri = 120 'x', td_rb_list = 0, td_rbp_list = 0, td_rb_inact = 0,
td_sa = {code = 0, callp = 0x0, args = {0 }, narg = 0},
  td_pcb = 0xfe014cc87b80, td_state = TDS_RUNQ, td_uretoff = {tdu_retval =
{0, 0}, tdu_off = 0}, td_cowgen = 0, td_slpcallout = {c_links = {le = {le_next =
0x0, le_prev = 0x0}, sle 

Re: Supermicro X9SCV-Q: no boot options to define

2019-12-11 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:23:59 +0100
"Hartmann, O."  wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> my apology for polluting this list with a non-FreeBSD specific problem,
> but since Supermicro is a veryy often used vendor in the FreeBSD
> user/developer community I might find help here much fast.
> 
> I got hands on onto an oldish Supermicro X9SCV-Q mainboard, equipted
> with an older i5-25XXM CPU running at 2,5 GHz). The AMI BIOS has
> version 2.10.1208 from 2012.
> The board does initially a longer beep and the it sounds like two
> or three very short beeps plus a last longer beep at a higher tune and
> then the system ALWAYS jumps into the firmware/BIOS screen, no matter
> whether I set a administrator password to protect the BIOS or not.
> Apart from the suspect of damaged RAM (three beeps indicate RAM
> problem above the first 64k block, two indicate PEI recovery or video
> memory problems if I interpret the manual correctly).
> 
> Sometimes the POST screen shows some message like "... in Recovery
> State", due to the off-phased HDMI attached monitor, I do not see the
> first characters. Maybe someone knows what that might indicate.
> 
> I already have changed the memory banks and the memory seems to be
> allright as the replacement memory has been checked thoroughly prior to
> the test in another well running box and I also checked the memory on
> another box with memtest tool without any suspicious indication.
> 
> The attempt to flash the latest firmware fails due to the fact that I
> can not even define a boot device - either this process is cryptic or
> it isn't documented and I'm too dull. A FreeDOS 1.1 prepared USB
> flashdrive  isn't bootable as any other UEFI/non UEFI flashdrive: I can
> see the USB drive as being attached to PCI bus in the firmware menu, I
> also can define a symbolic name, but then I fail in defining the path
> to the loader as suggested in the example (fs0:\file\loader.efi or so).
> Any hint is welcome.
> 
> This board has been used successfully over the past years and was
> equipted with a TPM module at connector 23 (TMP1 header) - I'm
> unfamiliar with those technologies and my first guess apart from a
> hardware failure was that the hardware could have been protected anyway
> like it is done via secure boot. Unplugging that TPM header doesn'
> change anything.
> 
> Also the boot of XigmaNAS latest USB flashed image or any FreeBSD (11,
> 12 CURRENT) latest USB flashed image failed so far.
> 
> Thanks for some help in adavnce,
> 

Don't know whether this will help, but a user posted to a forum
that he had this mainboard and couldn't boot any USB device no
matter what the tried.

His final, working solution was:


Further investigation found NOTHING would boot from USB.  I
cleared CMOS, entered setup and loaded Optimized Defaults,
rebooted, and VOILA!  Case closed.

*happy dance*


BTW he was using VGA.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn
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