On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 10:26:23AM +1100, Paul Ripke wrote: > Finally got around to replacing my 2012 vintage amd64 box. > > New machine: > Gigabyte B650M DS3H, AMD Ryzen 7900 12-core, 64GiB RAM > > I am planning on installing a recent build of netbsd-10, but right now > I'm stuck trying to boot off a USB stick: > > lubuntu: boots > freebsd 14.2: boots > netbsd-current & netbsd-10: fails > > Secure boot is disabled, EFI boot device is recognised in all cases, > so afaik I haven't screwed up dumping the images onto the USB stick. > I've also tried a couple of different sticks and different USB ports > with no change. > > After the MB splash screen, the failure leaves the cursor in the top-left > corner, and that's it. No response to the keyboard, including > ctrl-alt-delete. Last images attempted were: > https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/202502210110Z/images/NetBSD-10.99.12-amd64-install.img.gz > https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/202502210110Z/images/NetBSD-10.99.12-amd64-live.img.gz > > I'm new to EFI. How can I debug this? Can I copy the bootx64.efi from > freebsd and use with netbsd? Can I enable some sort of verbosity in > bootx64.efi? > > I've tried flipping various settings in the BIOS, but I don't see > anything that screams "compatability" at me. > > Help?
Doing some Print debugging, I'm finding the first AllocatePages in efi_md_init hangs. Which is a little interesting, since an AllocatePages in efi_heap_init has previously succeeded? My current debug log: efi_main starting... efi_heap_init... AllocatePages addr: 0000000100000000 sz: 256 heap_start: 00000000&E66F000 efi_md_init... startprog64_size: 8480 AllocatePages addr: 0000000100000000 sz: 3 Anyone have any hints at this point? Everything looks sane to me. -- Paul Ripke "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- Disputed: Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. 1948.
