Can you put the line --- i915_load="YES" ---
in /etc/rc.conf, not in /boot/loader.conf? Not sure this makes a difference but might be worth a try. When you get to loader prompt and give 'gop get', what is the output? Cheers Peeter -- On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Bryan C. Everly <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Bryan C. Everly > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm working on a blog post about how I was able to set up a Thinkpad >> x230 to UEFI multiboot Arch Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD. >> I have installed DragonFlyBSD (I believe) successfully and copied >> /boot/boot1.efi to my EFI partition and created an entry pointing to >> it for rEFInd (just like I did for the others). Unfortunately the >> behavior I'm seeing is that the first stage bootloader for >> DragonFlyBSD is seeing the UFS partition for FreeBSD and is trying to >> boot that. >> >> Any ideas what I can do to get around this issue? >> >> Thanks, >> Bryan > > All, > > I did the painful but logical thing and wiped the drive to start over > and put DragonFlyBSD in front of FreeBSD in terms of partition > sequence and was able to boot. However, on this x230 in UEFI mode, > I'm getting a similar problem to what I saw in FreeBSD: > > 1. Boot > 2. See the DragonFlyBSD menu > 3. Boots fine until the EFI framebuffer loads > 4. Now everything is a bunch of diagonally striped chatter in the > first line of the framebuffer > 5. It actually is booting and running, but I can't see anything > because the display is off > > To fix this same problem in FreeBSD on this same laptop, I loaded the > i915 kernel module and used the vt(4) "Graphics Mode Console" and all > was good. > > When I horsed around in DragonFlyBSD to do this, I added the following > to my /boot/loader.conf file: > > kern.kms_console=1 > i915_load="YES" > > Unfortunately, even though I see i915 and DRM loading, I still get the > EFI Framebuffer and the same problem. > > Any ideas? I'd really like to get into DragonFlyBSD and figured what > could be safer than an x230 but I think the hangup is that I'm UEFI > booting and I'm guessing most of the other x230 users of DragonFlyBSD > are not. > > I'd appreciate any help guys as I want to jump in and see what I can > do to help this project out!
