Sometimes, boot gets no further than EFI framebuffer information.
Whenever this occurs, the computer will stop immediately in response to
a simple, short press on the power button.
The two lines preceding framebuffer information (copy typed from a
photograph):
staging 0xadc00000 (not copying) tramp 0xbecfe000 PT4 0xbecf5000
Start @ 0xffffffff80389000 ...
I can not make the issue consistently reproducible.
Originally, it seemed that the minority of boots were bugged. For a
while, probably more than a week, the majority of boots were bugged
(sometimes five or more successive failures). More recently, again, the
minority of boots are bugged.
There's a strong sense of randomness, so I can not be certain that e.g.
safe mode is a workaround.
At least once, boot failed whilst the notebook was un-docked and
completely without peripherals.
Should I suspect any of the modules indicated below?
% cat /boot/loader.conf | grep -v \# | sort | tr -s '\n'
acpi_dock_load="YES"
acpi_hp_load="YES"
aesni_load="YES"
autofs_load="YES"
beastie_disable="NO"
boot_mute="NO"
boot_verbose="NO"
cpu_microcode_load="YES"
cpu_microcode_name="/boot/firmware/intel-ucode.bin"
cuse_load="YES"
efi_max_resolution="1600x900"
geom_eli_load="YES"
hw.pci.do_power_nodriver=3
hw.usb.no_boot_wait=0
kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
kern.racct.enable=1
openzfs_load="NO"
screen.font="8x16"
sysctlbyname_improved_load="YES"
sysctlinfo_load="YES"
vboxdrv_load="YES"
verbose_loading="NO"
zfs_load="YES"
%
HP EliteBook 8570p, probed a few minutes ago:
<https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=d9acb17caf&d=FreeBSD>
GELI encryption:
% lsblk ada0
DEVICE MAJ:MIN SIZE TYPE LABEL MOUNT
ada0 0:119 932G GPT - -
ada0p1 0:121 260M efi gpt/efiboot0 -
<FREE> -:- 1.0M - - -
ada0p2 0:123 16G freebsd-swap gpt/swap0 SWAP
ada0p2.eli 2:52 16G freebsd-swap - SWAP
ada0p3 0:125 915G freebsd-zfs gpt/zfs0 <ZFS>
ada0p3.eli 0:131 915G - - -
<FREE> -:- 708K - - -
%
Three photographs, the first of which is barely readable (sorry):
<https://i.imgur.com/waIVcpt.jpg> (2022-02-18 21:31)
<https://i.imgur.com/kmuZmnV.jpg> (2022-03-18 15:44)
<https://i.imgur.com/at7JBbp.jpg> (2022-04-17 18:58)
