Hardware problem?

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Lars Wittebrood

I rebooted a FreeBSD 14.3 system after upgrading it to the latest 14.3 version and then it did not boot.
Instead it showed the following on the screen:

Consoles: EFI console
efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=2306 size=512 status=7
efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=2310 size=512 status=7

It continued to show these messages with the blk item increasing with steps of 4 (so 2314, 2318, 2322, etc.).
At first instance I thought it was a boot disk error (a PCIe NVME M.2 2280). So I ordered a new disk and created a bootable FreeBSD
installation USB disk to install FreeBSD on the new bought disk.
But with booting the created USB boot drive I got the exact same messages!
The system has multiple USB slots and the same happens regardless of which USB slot I choose for the
bootable USB disk. I also used 2 different USB drives. Used 2 different methods creating the USB boot drive (Etcher and dd on terminal). Same messages!
So, I am left with a system which does not boot.
I could not find a conclusive story online, so therefor the question: is this a system hardware problem?
I.e. a motherboard/controller problem? Or is this something else?

Any pointers are welcome!

Thanks.

Cheers,
Lars
 
Did you/can you pull out the original NVME device? I think the EFI partition is on that. According to this I think the status=7 is a device error "The physical device reported an error while attempting the operation."


Similar report from a few years ago:
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Thread '13.1 booting problem'

I have a problem booting a 13.1 server with an ASUS Prime B560-PLUS motherboard and an Intel i5-11600K CPU. I rebuilt the server from scratch using a memstick and then restored the system from dumps. I did exactly the same thing with a secondary server and it worked perfectly. However, while in single user mode on the main server, and with the disks mounted, I accedently hit the reboot switch (it was on a bench at the time.) Now when I reboot, it spits out a bunch of messages as follows:

Consoles: efi console
efipart_readwrite rw=1 blk=xxxxxxxxxxxx size=xxx status=7
...
 
mer said:
Did you/can you pull out the original NVME device? I think the EFI partition is on that. According to this I think the status=7 is a device error "The physical device reported an error while attempting the operation."


Similar report from a few years ago:
R

Thread '13.1 booting problem'

I have a problem booting a 13.1 server with an ASUS Prime B560-PLUS motherboard and an Intel i5-11600K CPU. I rebuilt the server from scratch using a memstick and then restored the system from dumps. I did exactly the same thing with a secondary server and it worked perfectly. However, while in single user mode on the main server, and with the disks mounted, I accedently hit the reboot switch (it was on a bench at the time.) Now when I reboot, it spits out a bunch of messages as follows:

Consoles: efi console
efipart_readwrite rw=1 blk=xxxxxxxxxxxx size=xxx status=7
...
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Yes, the original NVME bootdisk is not in the system anymore. Is replaced with a new one.
Then inserted a fresh created USB FreeBSD install disk and got the same messages as booting with the original NVME bootdisk.
Used multiple USB ports of the system. Used multiple USB disks.
 
Did an additional test: created a Linux (Ubuntu) install USB disk (used previously to create FreeBSD bootdisk) and booted that. Booted just fine .... So hardware seems fine (?)
 
It would be useful to get more details of the hardware (motherboard details, other bios settings, etc..)

Sound like some edge case regression in loader.efi which would account why the usb stick is not booting either.

It's important to determine like mer said if it happens also with later vesions 14.4 and 15.0 and if so a bug should be filed in bugzilla. Any would be regression in loader.efi is of interest to all of us . Idem with regressions in storage controller handling or the like.
 
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