On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Anders Bolt Evensen <andersb...@icloud.com> wrote:
> On 05.09.14 19:37, John Nielsen wrote: >> On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Glen Barber <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:20:21AM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: >>>> I have a "MacBook Pro Retina, Mid 2012" (MacBookPro10,1) on which I'd like >>>> to be able to boot FreeBSD from an external USB drive. For testing I've >>>> been using the mini-memstick images from the -CURRENT snapshots, most >>>> recently the one from 20140903. >>>> >>>> I am able to select "EFI Boot" on the USB device from the Mac's boot menu, >>>> and it does _something_, but the screen never changes--the image of the >>>> boot menu is displayed indefinitely. I think it is actually booting since >>>> there is drive activity and the caps lock key indicator starts working a >>>> few seconds in, but the screen just stays the same. Thinking the >>>> resolution of the Retina display may have been an issue, I tried booting >>>> with it disabled (lid closed) and an external monitor and keyboard. The >>>> result was the same--Mac boot menu frozen on the external display. >>>> >>>> Is there anything I should try to troubleshoot or debug this issue? >>>> Anything else I should include in a PR? I can test patches if needed >>>> (probably after building an image including the patch from a VM). >>>> >>> To be clear, which boot menu do you see? If you see the FreeBSD loader >>> menu, escape to the loader prompt and try: >>> >>> set kern.vty=vt >>> set hw.vga.textmode=1 >>> boot >>> >>> I am a bit unclear under which conditions 'hw.vga.textmode=1' is >>> required, though. >> No, I don't ever see the FreeBSD loader. I see the menu you get on a Mac >> when you hold down the option (alt) key while booting--big disk icons >> representing the bootable disks/partitions in the system. In my case it was >> the "Macintosh HD" volume (Mac OS Mavericks), my Windows partition, and the >> USB stick with the FreeBSD memstick image on it, which the Mac just called >> "EFI Boot" (and the icon was that of a USB disk). There is also a little >> section at the bottom that allows wifi network booting (if you've done all >> the black magic (not PXE) to get that to happen). It shows a circular >> activity animation while it scans for wireless networks. That animation >> stops when I select the USB EFI icon and press enter (and that is the only >> visual indication I get that I made a selection). > > To see the FreeBSD (U)EFI boot loader on the Mac, you need to install an EFI > shell like rEFIt on either your hard drive or a HFS formatted memory stick: > 1) Download the rEFIt installer from here: > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/refit/rEFIt/0.14/rEFIt-0.14.dmg?r=http%3A%2F%2Frefit.sourceforge.net%2F&ts=1410181876&use_mirror=optimate > 2) Open the downloaded file > 3) Run the following command from the terminal: sudo installer -pkg > /Volumes/rEFIt/rEFIt.mpkg -tgt /Volumes/memstick (in this example, I'm using > an HFS formatted memory stick). > 4) Run the command "sudo /Volumes/memstick/efi/enable.sh" > 5) When you reboot your Mac, when you hold down the alt key, choose rEFIt on > the startup menu. Then, choose the "BOOTx64.efi from …" option > If everything now goes as it should, you should see the FreeBSD loader. When > the "Press enter to boot or any other key to go to loader in X seconds" (or > whatever it says), press a random key. Then try to type the commands > suggested by [Glen Barber]. Thanks all, made _some_ progress. I installed rEFInd on my internal hard drive and now I can get to (and see!) the FreeBSD EFI loader. Unfortunately that's about as far as it gets. Once I tell the loader to boot it displays the EFI framebuffer information and then nothing else. This happens with 'kern.vty=vt' set and with or without 'hw.vga.textmode=1'. Screenshot here: https://blog.jnielsen.net/images/efiloader.jpg What should the next troubleshooting steps be? JN _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
