On 13 September 2015 at 18:34, Toby Slight <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, so I finally managed to boot the 12th's snapshot on an EFI only T430. > Weirdly enough one time it just worked, but when I tried again I got the > same results as the 9th's snapshot installer. > > It seems that sometime the bootblocks get loaded, sometimes not, 9 times > out of 10 I get http://i.imgur.com/Apfoe8r.jpg, then suddenly it will > just work. Any idea why a successful boot appears to be so random? Also, is > it normal that the resolution is a tiny cropped box in the middle of the > screen? > > Anyway, once I'd apparently (and very much obliviously) cast the right > mystical invocations to successfully boot the installer, I followed Chris' > very clear and useful instructions, with some slight alterations, to do my > usual encrypted softraid0 setup on one disk. > > One point I should note is that the newfs_msdos command was not available > in the installer's path, I had to wait until after install and then call > the binary from the installed sets - ie) /mnt/sbin/newfs_mkdos. > > Anyway, apart from that tiny hiccup, everything else worked as expected. > However when I tried to boot the new install I ended up almost immediately > at the ddb prompt, as pictured below: > > http://i.imgur.com/1sfqYQ8.jpg > > http://i.imgur.com/OcRNUyI.jpg > > I'm not a developer and don't know how to use ddb, so is there anything > else I could do to provide you guys information and help debug the issue? > > When I rebooted again it seemed the process hung in a slightly different > way: > > http://i.imgur.com/1Am1qNB.jpg > > Hope some of that might be helpful to some of you EFI wizards, and if not, > I haven't nuked the disk yet, so if there's any ddb poking you'd like me to > do, let me know. Cheers! > Perhaps this may also be of interest - I get yet again different results when booting the sp kernel from the bootloader prompt (the boot process got a lot further this time strangely enough): http://i.imgur.com/bAE0qWp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/sg7Rxgv.jpg -- 0x2b || !0x2b
