Package: refind Version: 0.12.0-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
(also posted on https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/1188d50b6c/) I am having 2 strange problems when running the combination of debian 11 (bullseye) in qemu with UEFI/refind. The first one is that, contrary to the versions in debian 10, I cannot boot the system anymore without attaching a graphics environment to it. The system just gives me a screen dump and refuses to boot. sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=./bullseye-unstable-1.04.12-amd64-20210903-114025.nvars.fd -drive format=qcow2,file=./bullseye-unstable-1.04.12-amd64-20210903-114025.qcow2 -drive format=qcow2,file=ssd-disk.qcow2 -device e1000,netdev=net0,mac=52:54:82:8b:e9:ed -netdev tap,id=net0 -device e1000,netdev=net1,mac=52:54:4f:84:9c:24 -netdev tap,id=net1 -m 4G -cpu host -smp 2 add the -nographic flag and the system, and the system is drops a shell dump. 13:36:28 �[2J�[01;01H�[=3h�[2J�[01;01H�[2J�[01;01H�[=3h�[2J�[01;01H�[2J�[01;01H�[=3h�[2J�[01;01H�[0m�[35m�[40m�[2J�[01;01H�[=3h�[2J�[01;01H�[0m�[37m�[40m!!!! X64 Exception Type - 0D(#GP - General Protection) CPU Apic ID - 00000000 !!!! 13:36:28 ExceptionData - 0000000000000000 13:36:28 RIP - 00000000BFF1411A, CS - 0000000000000038, RFLAGS - 0000000000010206 13:36:28 RAX - 0000000000000004, RCX - 0000000000000010, RDX - 0000000000000002 13:36:28 RBX - AFAFAFAFAFAFAFAF, RSP - 00000000BFF039C0, RBP - 00000000BFF03A9C 13:36:28 RSI - 00000000BFF03A9C, RDI - AFAFAFAFAFAFAFAF 13:36:28 R8 - 0000000000000002, R9 - 0000000000000000, R10 - 0000000000000000 13:36:28 R11 - 0000000000000C80, R12 - 00000000BFF03B68, R13 - 00000000BE370C80 13:36:28 R14 - 00000000BE36F100, R15 - 00000000BFF03B60 13:36:28 DS - 0000000000000030, ES - 0000000000000030, FS - 0000000000000030 13:36:28 GS - 0000000000000030, SS - 0000000000000030 13:36:28 CR0 - 0000000080010033, CR2 - 0000000000000000, CR3 - 00000000BFC01000 13:36:28 CR4 - 0000000000000668, CR8 - 0000000000000000 13:36:28 DR0 - 0000000000000000, DR1 - 0000000000000000, DR2 - 0000000000000000 13:36:28 DR3 - 0000000000000000, DR6 - 00000000FFFF0FF0, DR7 - 0000000000000400 13:36:28 GDTR - 00000000BFBEE698 0000000000000047, LDTR - 0000000000000000 13:36:28 IDTR - 00000000BF2A2018 0000000000000FFF, TR - 0000000000000000 13:36:28 FXSAVE_STATE - 00000000BFF03620 13:36:28 !!!! Find image based on IP(0xBFF1411A) /build/edk2-fUa9k0/edk2-0~20181115.85588389/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC49/X64/MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/DxeMain/DEBUG/DxeCore.dll (ImageBase=00000000BFF04000, EntryPoint=00000000BFF062A0) !!!! This is annoying for automated testing and integration. However, the major nuisance, and I've not been able to resolve this or debug it, is that a system that was installed with a debian installler iso file does not seem to boot anymore with refind, using the same command line as above, while performing exactly the same install/script with buster does allow the system to boot and a real HW system (installed with the same iso file) does boot with refind (both buster and bullseye). Actually, small correction, it boots with refind (as it shows the background, cf. config), but it does not show the menu, nor does it perform any action. menuentry "Linux A" { icon /EFI/refind/icons/os_debian.png volume boot_a loader /vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64 initrd /initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64 options "root=/dev/mapper/dsk00-root_a ro quiet consoleblank=0 fsprotect fsck.mode=skip console=ttyS0 reboot=pci" } banner banner.png banner_scale fillscreen default_selection "Linux A," One small modification I needed to do (while porting for bullseye), was to add the slash in front of the loader/initrd (was not needed in buster) to get it to boot on hardware with debian 11 and a small fix to the installer script [1]. However after booting the same system (so installed with debian netinst/refind/no-grub), installing grub in rescue mode (grub-mkdconfig, grub-install), does allow to boot the system (using grub). This only happens in bullseye (debian 11), not in buster (debian 10). I am wondering if I have missed a configuration change or perhaps am using a wrong configuration setting that got deprecated in the debian 11 version. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991945 -- g. Marc
