console in UEFI boot

Fri Jul 8 13:34:56 PDT 2016

No, the original OS was 64bits Windoze, .... it's the usual Microsoft
madness ...

Bernie

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 11:24 PM, karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apparently this is due to the 32 bitness of the original operating system
> that came with the machine: the UEFI spec requires that UEFI and OS bitness
> match. The original OS was probably a 32 bit Windows.
>
> Peeter
>
> --
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Bernard Mentink <bmentink at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In my case, I have a small Atom based micro-PC which is 64bits with a
>> 32-bit UEFI ...
>> I use it as a media center PC ...
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Samuel Paik <sam at paiks.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Some Windows 8 PCs (particularly Atom based tablets with 1-2 GB
>>> non-expandable RAM) have 64-bit capable CPUs but come with 32-bit UEFI boot
>>> roms.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:43 AM, karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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 <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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