I am trying to install FreeBSD 15

Rock

Rock

My pc is a HP MO1-Fxxx series desktop. One method was to take out the M.2 memory used to boot Windows 11 and installing a HD. But since it did not work, I used a DVD drive connected on usb. I put DVD on top on the BIOS boot order and no boot. Thanks.

Apart from that Microsoft made the boot process one step longer. Just to say, "do not mess with us".
 
Given your fully extended provided information , including the steps and actions you took to create this problem, and steps to solve, no boot can mean anything, so we cannot help at this stage. [PS : I boot windows, FreeBSD, MX-linux,Redcore-linux,Garuda-Linux,Mabox-Linux]
 
the HP M01 series seems to be a HP MINI-PC with customized (costoptimized) Motherbord. (AKALI china )
If you have been Running Windows 11 on the machine its set up for Secure Boot.
You need to remove Secure-Boot setting from UEFI/BIOS , for the machine to start loading the FreeBSD bootstraps.
 
drsnx60 said:
the HP M01 series seems to be a HP MINI-PC with customized (costoptimized) Motherbord. (AKALI china )
If you have been Running Windows 11 on the machine its set up for Secure Boot.
You need to remove Secure-Boot setting from UEFI/BIOS , for the machine to start loading the FreeBSD bootstraps.
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the UEFI program is no good. Just to get to use more RAM is not so important to change to it. I am hoping that whoever can, will destroy it or change it. The change to nonprotected mode was no good. Still on square one, but it seems Microsoft has knowledge of what caused it.
 
Why are you mentioning DVD booting and not Memstick? Turn off gunk in BIOS and set boot device to UEFI Memstick.

Delete UEFI Boot Setting for "Windows Boot Manager" unless you want to dual boot.
 
drsnx60 said:
not sure we understand each other here , im not discussing RAM . Under security settings in BIOS , you need to disable secure boot. wich is requiered for Windows 11.
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Yes, what I am discussing the need to boot FreeBSD in my PC. Your reply is to disable an "secure boot" in BIOS. But how can doing that make it possible.
 
Afaik, it's now universal. I can boot the same FreeBSD system on a legacy 64-bit PC with BIOS and on a HP Elite mini or HP Prodesk with the UEFI secure boot thing enabled. Maybe try to write a FreeBSD 15 memstick image to an USB storage device. It should boot anyway. But I haven't seen all hardware...
Still, I believe HP hates this and tries to overcomplicate it against non-MS systems. I have used many HP PC's. They all seem to have intentional inconsistent behaviour that's in professional terms unreliable, if it doesn't run Windows.
 
Rock said:
Yes, what I am discussing the need to boot FreeBSD in my PC. Your reply is to disable an "secure boot" in BIOS. But how can doing that make it possible.
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Secure Boot is a mechanism that stores a cryptographic signature in PROM/TPM in the PC hardware. This signature is compared with the checksum/signature of the CODE loaded into the PC to be used as a Bootstrap , if the signature in the CODE matches the signature in the PROM the operation is allowed. when you have loaded Windows 11 Signature into the PROM only signed windows 11 CODE will be accepted. If no match the CODE is not executed, causing the bootstrap for FreeBSD to be discarded.
Secure boot can be used for many operating systems. I have used it on SPARC/Solaris. The issue here is that the Signature loaded in the the PC prom must be correct for the CODE that is loaded from boot media.
As you are reusing a WINDOWS 11 PC you need to begin with disabling SECURE BOOT , to allow Freebsd to boot.
Very much later you can experiment with storing Freebsd cryptographic signature in to the PROM / TPM chip.
info on FreeBSD secure boot project is here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot
 
Actually the boot process seen by your change took me to other menus. I spend hours trying to get out off the process, but it ask to enter my account in the MS's webpage. Very strange.
 
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I did turn off 'secure boot' and rebooted to a menu asking (HP?) ask me a bitlocker number to continue. I login in MS webpage and got the bitlocker number. But to be honest and from reading the posts before is a risk to continue. It can lead to nothing or go berserk.
 
Not sure about HP BIOS and Windows.

I’ve been reading online a lot of industry is moving to UEFI BIOS vs traditional GRUB BIOS.

Looks like the TPM standard for BIOS is being promoted in industry from this nonprofit group (some may know them) https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/

This is what deprecated Windows 10 in the consumer market. Preliminary reading online says TPM is vendor-neutral I guess

I assume we are not locked into TPM standard on FreeBSD?

I run HP BIOS on my HP desktop machine. Sometimes it is buggy for dual booting Windows + FreeBSD
 
Rock said:
I did turn off 'secure boot' and rebooted to a menu asking (HP?) ask me a bitlocker number to continue. I login in MS webpage and got the bitlocker number. But to be honest and from reading the posts before is a risk to continue. It can lead to nothing or go berserk.
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If your PC is asking for a bitlocker number, you've booted into the windows loader. Likely because secure boot was disabled.

Assuming you have disabled secure boot, you're half-way there.

The other possibility is you've tripped up some anti-tamper feature of TPM which means secure boot isn't actually turned off.
 
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