So far I haven't been able to install FreeBSD 10.1 on my HP Probook 4540s. The specific failure is that the computer can boot from a FreeBSD CD, but after installation on the hard drive, the system won't boot - just says "no bootable image found". The system also won't boot from a FreeBSD USB stick.
I've been learning a little more about EFI in the meantime and have gotten another OS installed on the ProBook and would like to try again - just posting to see if someone can validate my approach.
First, I want to confirm I'm using the right distro. My expectation is that I should be able to plug in a USB stick and dd the 10.1-RELEASE-amd64-uefi-memstick.img file onto it and it will boot. Is that realistic or are there other steps I need to do?
Second, if the memstick doesn't boot due to a bug (explained more below), should I be able to burn the 10.1-RELEASE-disc1-amd64-uefi-disc1.iso to a CD, boot from that, and install to the hard drive, and would that hard drive then boot using UEFI?
Third, I read about a bug that may be responsible for my issues - it turns out that the HP Probook bios is hardcoded to boot from EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi by default, although you can select the specific path at boot time if you pause the booting process. Is there any problem with just moving/renaming that efi file if needed?
Thanks in advance and yeah I know these UEFI implementations are basically a mess that FreeBSD is stuck trying to clean up...
I've been learning a little more about EFI in the meantime and have gotten another OS installed on the ProBook and would like to try again - just posting to see if someone can validate my approach.
First, I want to confirm I'm using the right distro. My expectation is that I should be able to plug in a USB stick and dd the 10.1-RELEASE-amd64-uefi-memstick.img file onto it and it will boot. Is that realistic or are there other steps I need to do?
Second, if the memstick doesn't boot due to a bug (explained more below), should I be able to burn the 10.1-RELEASE-disc1-amd64-uefi-disc1.iso to a CD, boot from that, and install to the hard drive, and would that hard drive then boot using UEFI?
Third, I read about a bug that may be responsible for my issues - it turns out that the HP Probook bios is hardcoded to boot from EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi by default, although you can select the specific path at boot time if you pause the booting process. Is there any problem with just moving/renaming that efi file if needed?
Thanks in advance and yeah I know these UEFI implementations are basically a mess that FreeBSD is stuck trying to clean up...