console in UEFI boot

[Bernard Mentink]

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 <karu.pruun at gmail.com> 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 <karu.pruun at gmail.com> 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20160707/c56ddc4c/attachment.html>