Upon further testing, the USB does not boot on my desktop either, eliminating the possibility of a buggy UEFI. Instead, the issue must be caused by the way I create the installation media.
Ted On Dec 29, 2015 6:11 PM, "Atomic Beef" <teddyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Over the past few days I have been trying to install FreeBSD 11-CURRENT > with full disk encryption on my laptop and finally got it installed > yesterday, albeit without any encryption. > > The problem that I was running into was that even though the installer on > the USB booted fine and installed the system, my laptop would fail to boot > the brand new installation. I managed to "fix" this by inserting the USB > with a 10.2-RELEASE installer on it. For some reason my system started to > boot just fine after that. > > Once I had tested that everything worked on my laptop, I used dd to get > the 11-CURRENT snapshot back on my USB, but I found that it would refuse to > boot. The 10.2-RELEASE image doesn't work either. > > When I asked the forums about this issue, they said that it could be a > problem with the UEFI on my laptop and that a workaround might have to be > created. > > Thanks, > > Ted > _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
