Hi, > > > Do not load the system 32-bit ARM firmware VARS file because it > > > must be writable to prevent a data exception and boot failure. So > > > in order to use the VARS file, it must be copied to a writable > > > location, but its quite large at 64M and is not needed to boot > > > successfully. > > > > You can load the VARS file with snapshot=on (and drop readonly=on) to > > make things work without copying the file. > > Good to know. Do you know of any benefit to doing this (ie. using the > installed VARS file)?
Well, the firmware expects it can write to VARS flash. ovmf has for historical reasons code to cope with non-flash or readonly VARS (so -bios works), but armvirt has not. Which is why you see the failures. snapshot=on allows the guest write to a in-RAM throwaway snapshot, which is the same as using a writable temporary copy of the vars file, but without the need for a temporary file. take care, Gerd _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
