FBSD 10.0 USB Memstick Loader hangs on HP EliteBook 2740p

[CeDeROM]

Hello :-)

Loader of the FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE AMD64 hangs on load in random
moments when booting FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img on HP
EliteBook 2740p. There is no problem on other machines, the problem
does not allow kernel to load and boot, I have tried other USB sticks,
BIOS update does not change anything. I have booted 64bit both Win7
and Linux from USB drive with success. There is no optical drive, so
the only alternative would be to use pxe install, I will try the
loader and let you know back if this is anything USB related or rather
Loader/Hardware problem..

How the loader problem can be traced back? I can enter boot command prompt :-)

Any hints appreciated :-)

Tomek

[hiren panchasara]

Post by CeDeROM
Hello :-)
Loader of the FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE AMD64 hangs on load in random
moments when booting FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img on HP
EliteBook 2740p. There is no problem on other machines, the problem
does not allow kernel to load and boot, I have tried other USB sticks,
BIOS update does not change anything. I have booted 64bit both Win7
and Linux from USB drive with success. There is no optical drive, so
the only alternative would be to use pxe install, I will try the
loader and let you know back if this is anything USB related or rather
Loader/Hardware problem..
How the loader problem can be traced back? I can enter boot command prompt :-)
Any hints appreciated :-)

I am curious, are you trying legacy bios or uefi? and did you ever
have freebsd successfully installed/running on this laptop? Trying to
figure out of this is a regression.

cheers,
Hiren

[CeDeROM]

Post by hiren panchasara
I am curious, are you trying legacy bios or uefi? and did you ever
have freebsd successfully installed/running on this laptop? Trying to
figure out of this is a regression.

This is my new machine so never FreeBSD on it before, I know Win7 and
Kali Linux 64bit works fine. I use Legacy BIOS boot. Should I try
UEFI? I will try pxe boot and report back :-)

[hiren panchasara]

Post by CeDeROM

Post by hiren panchasara
I am curious, are you trying legacy bios or uefi? and did you ever
have freebsd successfully installed/running on this laptop? Trying to
figure out of this is a regression.

This is my new machine so never FreeBSD on it before, I know Win7 and
Kali Linux 64bit works fine. I use Legacy BIOS boot. Should I try
UEFI? I will try pxe boot and report back :-)

Yeah, just for the hack of it, try UEFI and see.

Fwiw, I have a HP folio 9470m laptop that I cannot boot with -CURRENT.
In legacy bios, I see loader spinner and screen goes blank, laptop
reboots itself. And sometimes it resets itself even before the
spinner. In UEFI, I see other failures. More details at
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192655

cheers,
Hiren

[CeDeROM]

Post by CeDeROM

Post by hiren panchasara
I am curious, are you trying legacy bios or uefi? and did you ever
have freebsd successfully installed/running on this laptop? Trying to
figure out of this is a regression.

This is my new machine so never FreeBSD on it before, I know Win7 and
Kali Linux 64bit works fine. I use Legacy BIOS boot. Should I try
UEFI? I will try pxe boot and report back :-)

I have made it to run PXE Install and the installed system works fine.
There must be something wrong with the USB Loader...?