Boot woes. UEFI etc

HeneryH

I saw an older post but thought I would update with the latest versions.

I am trying to install on an HP ProDesk 600 G5 Mini with a second NIC installed in the mini expansion port.

Imaged a USB installer with pfSense 2.6.0 which is the latest as of today.

First issue was that secure boot was throwing an error on the signature of the boot device or something like that so I set my secure boot options to Legacy. This gives me both Legacy and EUFI options when I boot next time.

First question... I get two partitions on my USB boot device. Actually two legacy and two EUFI.

Legacy Partition A - just immediately returns to the menu. Must not be a boot partition.
Legacy Partition B - goes into a sort of boot loop.
EUFI Partition C - gets me to the black screen pfsense boot screen.
EUFI Partition D - immediate return to menu

Given that EUFI C is the only one to get me to the menu I try that. It hangs at the framebuffer point that is often talked about.

I try some of the common settings by (3) escape to loader prompt.

I have tried:

UI Console - serial
timeout boot (nope, hangs at EFI Framebuffer masks point)

UI Console - video
boot (nope, hangs at EFI Framebuffer masks point)

UI Console - serial
set console="efi"
boot  (nope, hangs at the same EFI Framebuffer masks point)

Console = serial
set kern.vty=sc
boot  (nope, hangs)

All of these seem to hang with the EFI Framebuffer.

I am using the HP bios which isn't clear to me which settings to change to force it out of EUFI mode that I keep hearing about. Given the Legacy boot options don't work I am a little stuck.

Any advice for a noob?

I'd like to use one of these minis I have laying around.

rcoleman-netgate

@heneryh On your HP and UEFI -- is secure boot enabled in the BIOS?

HeneryH

@rcoleman-netgate

Legacy Enabled, Secure Boot Disabled

Then I get options to boot from either legacy or eufi usb drive.

stephenw10

What loop does it go into on partition B?

HeneryH

@stephenw10 If I leave the USB boot priority below the sdd, and I install by one-time using the boot menu to get to the pfsense installer then immediately after choosing that partition it reboots and goes to my older sdd boot.

If I set the USB to be the first partition then it boot loops a handful of times and then gets to some wonky bootloader screen. I will have to try again.