On Monday 26 September 2016 14:31:57 Lars Engels wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 05:56:59AM +0000, Justin Holcomb wrote: > > > From: [email protected] > > > <[email protected]> on behalf of Stephan > > > CHEDLIVILI <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2016 > > > 12:50 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: UEFI bhyve and EFI shell at boot > > > > > > Hi gents, > > > > > > I was giving a try to the UEFI-GOP on a FreeBSD 11.0-RC3. Launching the > > > install of, let's say a Debian works fine and I can attach a VNC viewer > > > for the progress. > > > > > > All is fine , even rebooting after the installation is finished I can > > > log in Debian. > > > > > > However, when I do a bhyvectl --destroy --vm=xxxxxxx and I try to reboot > > > the VM and it greets me with the error message "Boot failed, EFI > > > Harddrive" at boot and sends me to the EFI shell. > > > > > > I then have to manually use the shell menu to launch the boot via the > > > ad-hoc file (/boot/efi/efi/debian/grubx64.efi) and it boot flawlessly. > > > > > > And of course, the same error happens after I reboot the FreeBSD host > > > machine > > > > > > Is there somethign I am missing here ? > > > > > > Thanks for this admirable piece of work ! > > > > > > -Stephan > > > > Stephan, > > > > I have also experienced this as well. My scriptable work around was to > > start the guest with a rEFInd ISO[1] instead a 'null.iso'. rEFInd sees > > the Debian installation on the image/volume and will boot from it after > > the 15 seconds timeout elapses. > > > > As for the why... my rudimentary understanding is the Debian installation > > creates and relies on the UEFI boot entry it creates during installation. > > However that entry is forgotten once the guest's VMM resources are > > reclaimed as the UEFI environment is not saved and is reloaded exactly > > from the UEFI ROM file (not from the previous state). > > > > -Justin D Holcomb > > > > [1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html > > That's also true for Ubuntu 16.04
But this problem does not happen with Fedora 4.7 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
