Thursday, May 28, 2020

Re: EFI boot on Dell PowerEdge R610

On 2020-05-28 00:56, Johan Hattne wrote:
> On 2020-05-28 00:43, YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, 27 May 2020 22:32:58 -0700
>> Johan Hattne <johan@hattne.se> wrote:
>>> I've been trying to boot the 6.7 installation media from USB via EFI
>>> on a Dell PowerEdge R610.  The screen goes blank and then the thing
>>> resets (so no kernel output or anything).  I can boot the same stick
>>> via BIOS.
>>>
>>> I've been searching for a while without results.  Firmware settings
>>> look sane to me.  Is this something anybody has seen before?  Any hint
>>> on where I could even start looking for problems would be very much
>>> appreciated!
>>
>> I'd like you to try the diff attached with the following message.
>>
>> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=158280719421562&w=2
>
> Thanks a lot, Yasuoka!  Is there any chance you could provide a compiled
> BOOTX64.EFI?  I don't have an amd64 build environment at the moment.

After a bit of off-list discussion, Yasuoka concluded that above diff
won't help here. To clarify the issue: there is no output at all before
the machine resets, in particular there is no prompt from the EFI boot
program.

// Johan

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