freebsd stable - Sep 2020 - UEFI boot failure with VMware Workstation 16 and 12.2Beta3

Hi folks,


I've been testing FreeBSD 12.2Beta3 (amd64) with VMware Workstation 16 
on Windows 10, and encountered an issue which looks to be related to the 
UEFI console (see attached screenshot).

It's quite possible this is a VMware UEFI bug rather than a FreeBSD bug, 
and I've mentioned this to VMware here: 
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/643481 but I wanted to mention it 
here in case it's triggered by the FreeBSD UEFI support doing something 
slightly incorrect which triggers this misbehaviour.

I also tested with the latest 12.1 release image and this behaviour is 
not triggered with 12.1p1 or p10.


Kind regards,

Roger

On 30/09/2020 17:44, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I've been testing FreeBSD 12.2Beta3 (amd64) with VMware Workstation 16 
> on Windows 10, and encountered an issue which looks to be related to 
> the UEFI console (see attached screenshot).
>
> It's quite possible this is a VMware UEFI bug rather than a FreeBSD 
> bug, and I've mentioned this to VMware here: 
> https://communities.vmware.com/thread/643481 but I wanted to mention 
> it here in case it's triggered by the FreeBSD UEFI support doing 
> something slightly incorrect which triggers this misbehaviour.
>
> I also tested with the latest 12.1 release image and this behaviour is 
> not triggered with 12.1p1 or p10.
>
One additional detail to mention.? The installer didn't trigger the 
bug.? It booted from UEFI perfectly and the installer ran to 
completion.? This issue was only triggered after I booted into the new 
installation.


Kind regards,

Roger