On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:14:41AM +0200, Kristjan Komloši wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 18:32 +0000, Charlie Burnett wrote:
> > Hey, I'm looking to get OpenBSD working in UEFI only mode on newer
> > Thinkpad
> > X1 devices, because for whatever reason it hangs when loading into
> > memory
> > without CSM enabled, and some of the X1 devices no longer have a CSM
> > option. Does anyone have a fix, or advice on where I would start
> > looking if
> > I was going to patch it myself?
> New Lenovo laptops are getting kinda infamous for their comically bad
> UEFI implementations. They hardly boot anything but Windows. You may be
> on a blind path there.
>
> Try disabling secure boot if you haven't done so already, and try
> chainloading OpenBSD through a boot manager like rEFInd (I've been
> booting OpenBSD with it for a long time, albeit with CSM support).
>
> --
> Kristjan Komloši
> Mail: [email protected]
> Tel: +386 31 679 339
>
Or save yourself the trouble and go for legacy mode.
-Otto
