Hi Bernie I don't know. Do you mean your machine is 64bit but has a 32bit EFI? This is a good overview of UEFI
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/ I think the terminology is that the type of your firmware is either BIOS or UEFI, and the latter can emulate BIOS boot if needed. I should also retract my original complaint: booting now works fine on macbookpro even without interfering, ie setting 'mode 0' at loader prompt. No idea why the error is gone. All I did is correct the vfs.root.mountfrom variable so I don't need to enter it by hand in the middle of the boot sequence; and delete /etc/issue left over from the boot CD. In any case, the problem now is that i915 does not load; the machine gets stuck. Cheers Peeter -- On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Bernard Mentink <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peeter, > > So is there a 32 bit EFI loader available for machines with a 32bit EFI > bios? > > Cheers, > Bernie > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 9:51 PM, karu.pruun <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Update: the console works fine if one escapes to loader prompt and sets >> mode to either 0 (80x25) or 1 (80x50), and then boots the system up. The >> original mode set by EFI is 2 (210x55). When the system has booted up, >> ttyv0 will still be smaller in the top left corner, but switching to any >> other ttyv gives a full display (105x32). >> >> So all in all: using DragonFly 4.5 and UEFI I have a multiboot machine >> (macbookpro 15) with DragonFly, MacOSX, and I also installed FreeBSD for >> testing purposes. >> >> For those interested: DragonFly can be installed manually as described on >> the manual page gpt(8). The difference is in creating partitions. For >> booting, create a 1 GB partition and format without labelling: >> >> gpt add -s 2000000 -t "DragonFly UFS1" adX >> newfs /dev/adXsY >> >> where X and Y are the disk and slice respectively. Other partitions can >> be labelled as usual. cpdup boot stuff to the boot partition as explained >> in gpt(8), and the rest to other partitions. When you're finished, mount >> the EFI system partition >> >> mount -t msdos /dev/adsX /mnt >> >> and copy DragonFly's EFI bootloader to it >> >> mkdir -p /mnt/EFI/dragonfly >> cp /boot/boot1.efi /mnt/EFI/dragonfly/dragonfly_x64.efi >> >> If you have an EFI boot manager like refind, you can boot DragonFly or >> any other system by choosing the respective EFI bootloader at startup. If >> you don't have a boot manager, then EFI will look for >> >> \EFI\BOOT\BOOTx64.EFI >> >> so copy DragonFly's EFI bootloader to this file, >> >> cp /boot/boot1.efi /mnt/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Peeter >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:19 PM, karu.pruun <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > I am booting DragonFly via UEFI on a macbookpro and running into >> > issues with console. UEFI puts console into a resolution 1680x1050, >> > but as soon as kernel has loaded and starts it switches to 40x25 mode >> > (or something similar, i.e. the default mode one sees at say CD boot), >> > but does not quite succeed: there's a 40x25 black-white quadrant in >> > the top-left corner and the rest is gray. This is compounded with >> > another issue: when booting is almost finished, the console starts >> > printing line feeds very fast although no key is pressed. In the end >> > the console is unusable as the prompt gets line feeds 10x a second and >> > nothing can be entered. Not sure the keyboard works at all. Aside from >> > that the system is running fine when used via ssh. >> > >> > When booted using a CD the console and keyboard are fine. >> > >> > Can I set a variable in loader.conf or elsewhere to switch the mode >> > back to 1680x1050 or something else? >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > Peeter >> > >> > -- >> > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
