In my case, I have a small Atom based micro-PC which is 64bits with a 32-bit UEFI ... I use it as a media center PC ...
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Samuel Paik <[email protected]> wrote: > Some Windows 8 PCs (particularly Atom based tablets with 1-2 GB > non-expandable RAM) have 64-bit capable CPUs but come with 32-bit UEFI boot > roms. > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:43 AM, karu.pruun <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Bernie >> >> I don't know. Do you mean your machine is 64bit but has a 32bit EFI? This >> is a good overview of UEFI >> >> >> https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/ >> >> I think the terminology is that the type of your firmware is either BIOS >> or UEFI, and the latter can emulate BIOS boot if needed. >> >> I should also retract my original complaint: booting now works fine on >> macbookpro even without interfering, ie setting 'mode 0' at loader prompt. >> No idea why the error is gone. All I did is correct the vfs.root.mountfrom >> variable so I don't need to enter it by hand in the middle of the boot >> sequence; and delete /etc/issue left over from the boot CD. In any case, >> the problem now is that i915 does not load; the machine gets stuck. >> >> Cheers >> >> Peeter >> >> -- >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Bernard Mentink <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
