Hi Peeter, So is there a 32 bit EFI loader available for machines with a 32bit EFI bios?
Cheers, Bernie On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 9:51 PM, karu.pruun <[email protected]> wrote: > Update: the console works fine if one escapes to loader prompt and sets > mode to either 0 (80x25) or 1 (80x50), and then boots the system up. The > original mode set by EFI is 2 (210x55). When the system has booted up, > ttyv0 will still be smaller in the top left corner, but switching to any > other ttyv gives a full display (105x32). > > So all in all: using DragonFly 4.5 and UEFI I have a multiboot machine > (macbookpro 15) with DragonFly, MacOSX, and I also installed FreeBSD for > testing purposes. > > For those interested: DragonFly can be installed manually as described on > the manual page gpt(8). The difference is in creating partitions. For > booting, create a 1 GB partition and format without labelling: > > gpt add -s 2000000 -t "DragonFly UFS1" adX > newfs /dev/adXsY > > where X and Y are the disk and slice respectively. Other partitions can be > labelled as usual. cpdup boot stuff to the boot partition as explained in > gpt(8), and the rest to other partitions. When you're finished, mount the > EFI system partition > > mount -t msdos /dev/adsX /mnt > > and copy DragonFly's EFI bootloader to it > > mkdir -p /mnt/EFI/dragonfly > cp /boot/boot1.efi /mnt/EFI/dragonfly/dragonfly_x64.efi > > If you have an EFI boot manager like refind, you can boot DragonFly or any > other system by choosing the respective EFI bootloader at startup. If you > don't have a boot manager, then EFI will look for > > \EFI\BOOT\BOOTx64.EFI > > so copy DragonFly's EFI bootloader to this file, > > cp /boot/boot1.efi /mnt/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi > > > Cheers > > Peeter > > -- > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:19 PM, karu.pruun <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am booting DragonFly via UEFI on a macbookpro and running into > > issues with console. UEFI puts console into a resolution 1680x1050, > > but as soon as kernel has loaded and starts it switches to 40x25 mode > > (or something similar, i.e. the default mode one sees at say CD boot), > > but does not quite succeed: there's a 40x25 black-white quadrant in > > the top-left corner and the rest is gray. This is compounded with > > another issue: when booting is almost finished, the console starts > > printing line feeds very fast although no key is pressed. In the end > > the console is unusable as the prompt gets line feeds 10x a second and > > nothing can be entered. Not sure the keyboard works at all. Aside from > > that the system is running fine when used via ssh. > > > > When booted using a CD the console and keyboard are fine. > > > > Can I set a variable in loader.conf or elsewhere to switch the mode > > back to 1680x1050 or something else? > > > > Cheers > > > > Peeter > > > > -- > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
