Hi,
On Thu, 28 May 2020 09:46:23 -0700
Johan Hattne <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On May 28, 2020, at 06:42, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-05-28 05:15, Johan Hattne wrote:
>>> On 2020-05-28 00:56, Johan Hattne wrote:
>>>> On 2020-05-28 00:43, YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 27 May 2020 22:32:58 -0700
>>>>> Johan Hattne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> I've been trying to boot the 6.7 installation media from USB via EFI
>>>>>> on a Dell PowerEdge R610. The screen goes blank and then the thing
>>>>>> resets (so no kernel output or anything). I can boot the same stick
>>>>>> via BIOS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been searching for a while without results. Firmware settings
>>>>>> look sane to me. Is this something anybody has seen before? Any hint
>>>>>> on where I could even start looking for problems would be very much
>>>>>> appreciated!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like you to try the diff attached with the following message.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=158280719421562&w=2
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot, Yasuoka! Is there any chance you could provide a compiled
>>>> BOOTX64.EFI? I don't have an amd64 build environment at the moment.
>>>
>>> After a bit of off-list discussion, Yasuoka concluded that above diff
>>> won't help here. To clarify the issue: there is no output at all before
>>> the machine resets, in particular there is no prompt from the EFI boot
>>> program.
>>>
>>> // Johan
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried firmware updates?
>> That machine is many years old, I'd not be the slightest bit surprised if
>> the firmware was buggy and didn't boot much of anything in EFI mode other
>> than Windows and maybe Linux.
>
> Thanks, Nick! The firmware is up to date. And the machine does boot e.g.
> NetBSD through EFI.
Probing serial devices is one of the differences from NetBSD efiboot.
diff --git a/sys/arch/amd64/stand/efiboot/conf.c
b/sys/arch/amd64/stand/efiboot/conf.c
index 3eb745d808d..8d385a4f198 100644
--- a/sys/arch/amd64/stand/efiboot/conf.c
+++ b/sys/arch/amd64/stand/efiboot/conf.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ int ndevs = nitems(devsw);
struct consdev constab[] = {
{ efi_cons_probe, efi_cons_init, efi_cons_getc, efi_cons_putc },
- { efi_com_probe, efi_com_init, efi_com_getc, efi_com_putc },
+ //{ efi_com_probe, efi_com_init, efi_com_getc, efi_com_putc },
{ NULL }
};
struct consdev *cn_tab = constab;
I put a compiled binary on https://yasuoka.net/~yasuoka/BOOTX64.EFI
