Re: FreeBSD OS installation stuck after selecting Boot installer

Andrew Turner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On 26 Jun 2024, at 02:18, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jun 25, 2024, at 17:44, Anantharam, Arjun <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I was able to make some more progress with the boot loader cmd:
>> 
>> set hw.uart.console="mm:0x2058400000,rs:2" 
>> However, with the .iso image i ran into this issue:
>> 
>> <image.png>

Your emails don’t seem to be making it to the list as it’s likely the images are too large.

> 
> That .png showed that you are tryin got boot 13_2_RELEASE_AARCH64_CD,
> which has its 13.2 EoL on: June 30, 2024
> 
> You may want to try 13.3 or some other Release that has significantly
> more time before its EoL (no support). (But you already tried a main
> [15] build below.)
> 
>> And with the .img (memstick image) file, kernel panics were seen:
> 
> This is not a boot of the same release, in fact it is a
> boot of main [15] from early June, instead of a release.
> 
>> OK boot
>> Loading kernel...
>> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x318 text=0x97e6d8 text=0x2b4130 data=0x166e60 data=0x
>> 0+0x370000 0x8+0x1652e8+0x8+0x196120
>> Loading configured modules...
>> can't find '/etc/hostid'
>> can't find '/boot/entropy'
>> No valid device tree blob found!
>> WARNING! Trying to fire up the kernel, but no device tree blob found!
>> ---<<BOOT>>---
>> GDB: no debug ports present
>> KDB: debugger backends: ddb
>> KDB: current backend: ddb
>>                   Type     Physical      Virtual   #Pages Attr
>>     ConventionalMemory 0040e0000000 000000000000 002a0000 WC WT WB 
>>               Reserved 004400000000 000000000000 00000700 WC WT WB 
>>    RuntimeServicesData 004400700000 004400700000 00000100 WC WT WB RUNTIME
..
>>               Reserved 004400700000 004400700000 00000010 WB RUNTIME

Why do the ACPI tables list the same address space twice?

>> MAP 4400700000 mode 2 pages 256
>> MAP 44b6940000 mode 2 pages 32
>> MAP 44b6b60000 mode 2 pages 128
>> MAP 44b6c20000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44b6c70000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44b6cf0000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44b6d40000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44b6d90000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44b6de0000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44b6e40000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44b6e90000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44b6ee0000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44b6f30000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 44bbf50000 mode 2 pages 64
>> MAP 44bbfa0000 mode 2 pages 80
>> MAP 4400700000 mode 2 pages 16
>> panic: efi_1t1_l3: Already mapped: va 0x4400700000 *pt 0x4400700f0b

This is complaining that the kernel is trying to map memory it already mapped. As a workaround you can disable the EFI runtime you can try setting “efi.rt.disabled=1” in loader to disable the use of these services.

Andrew
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