On 06/10/14 18:10, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 05:18:21PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 06/10/14 15:04, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: >>> Heya, >>> >>> Laszlo pointed out OVMF packages for Fedora from here[1]. I tried a >>> simple test using this[2] by installing Fedora onto a USB stick. >>> >>> Once Fedora is installed on the USB stick (/dev/sdb), and I attempt to >>> boot into the USB device as below, I get the Fedora serial console >>> login prompt just fine through a QEMU vnc display: >>> >>> $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -m 256 -bios \ >>> /usr/share/OVMF/OVMFX64.fd /dev/sdb) >>> >>> >>> However, when I try with the below QEMU invocation, I get "Boot >>> Failed. EFI Floppy": >>> >>> $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -m 512 -nographic \ >>> -nodefconfig -nodefaults -serial stdio \ >>> -bios /usr/share/OVMF/OVMFX64.fd /dev/sdb >>> Boot Failed. EFI Floppy >>> Boot Failed. EFI Floppy 1 >>> >>> >>> Next, I tried booting into a Fedora disk image with the below QEMU >>> invocation, and I get a UEFI interactive shell as below (after "Boot >>> Failed. EFI Floppy"): >>> >>> $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -m 512 -nographic \ >>> -nodefconfig -nodefaults -serial stdio -bios >>> /usr/share/OVMF/OVMFX64.fd \ >>> -drive >>> file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/Fedora-x86_64-20-20140407-sda.qcow2,if=ide,format=qcow2,cache=none >>> UEFI Interactive Shell v2.0 >>> EDK II >>> UEFI v2.40 (EDK II, 0x00010000) >>> Mapping table >>> BLK2: Alias(s): >>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x1)/Ata(0x0) >>> BLK3: Alias(s): >>> >>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x1)/Ata(0x0)/HD(1,MBR,0x00014C24,0x7A1,0x3FF83D) >>> BLK0: Alias(s): >>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Floppy(0x0) >>> BLK1: Alias(s): >>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Floppy(0x1) >>> >>> Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh or any other key to continue. >>> Shell> >>> >>> >>> Is this expected behavior? >>> >>> >>> [1] >>> http://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/bonzini/ovmf/fedora-20-x86_64/edk2-20140328svn15376-4.fc20/ >>> [2] http://people.freedesktop.org/~kay/installer/README >>> >> >> Document [2] seems to imply that the disk image you write out to the USB >> stick is a preinstalled (fixed media) Fedora system. > > The USB stick is created with Fedora Rawhide image using this > script: http://people.freedesktop.org/~kay/installer/installer.sh > > $ sudo ./installer.sh /dev/sdb > > Then, invoke QEMU.
That script is exactly what I don't want to run :) Can you upload the result somewhere? > This is disk image #3: > > > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/20/Images/x86_64/Fedora-x86_64-20-20140407-sda.qcow2 OK, I'll try to check this out. Thanks Laszlo
