On 09/09/2014 17:56, John Nielsen wrote: > 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? Just wanted to add a me too. I've finding exactly the same thing trying a usb or DVD 11-CURRENT snapshot. Hardware is MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 4 MB Memory: 8 GB Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s Boot ROM Version: MBP61.0057.B0F SMC Version (system): 1.58f17
Can upload a screenshot but its more or less identical to Johns. Vince > > 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" > _______________________________________________ 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"