console in UEFI boot

[karu.pruun]

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

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On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Bernard Mentink <bmentink at gmail.com> 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 <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
>> >
>> > --
>>
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