On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:37:37 -0800 Nick Owens wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 7:03 PM Chris Narkiewicz <he...@ezaquarii.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm experimentin with auto-install over network using linux libvirt
> > (qemu).
> >
> > I managed to load pxeboot in BIOS mode and I'm wondering if UEFI
> > is supported.
> >
> > According to this blog, I should load BOOTX64.EFI instead of pxeboot.
> >
> > https://eradman.com/posts/autoinstall-openbsd.html
> >
> > I was skeptical but tried it neverthekess and system immediately reboots 
> > after
> > probing disk:
> >
> > probing: p0 com0 mem[640K 2029M 9M 3M]
> > disk:BS->LocateHandle() returns 14
> > <reboot>
> >
> > Is it possible to net-boot installer in UEFI using QEMU?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
> >
> 
> i had some trouble getting PXE set up with dhcpd - see my mail from
> april, "dhcpd user-class and vendor-class".
> 
> i think there is also a bug in the EFI loader when run under OVMF as
> you experienced, but i never figured it out.

It works with QEMU, it took me around 2 minutes to boot a blank VM in
UEFI mode, auto-install it, reboot it and see the login prompt.

Error code 14 means "the item was not found", there is probably
something wrong with the VM/disk configuration.

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