Re: UEFI trouble with OVMF under Xen - nothing boots - SOLVED
On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 10:30:43PM +, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > > > > This is a follow up to the UEFI Windows boot problems > > > reported after 4.7 got imported: > > > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2016-June/002745.html > > > > > > I am using FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #6 r314708: Mon Mar 6 13:09:31 UTC 2017 > > >r...@o.saper.info:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 as dom0 > > > > > > In the 4.5 times I could install and boot Windows 2016 Technical Preview > > > 5 without > > > major problems. In fact, I started using this as my default Windows > > > environment - it was working very well and very fast. > > > > So, for the archives: > > I have compiled the newest OVMF git master in the DEBUG mode and found out > that under normal qemu both I/O debug port 0x402 logging or serial port > logging > (depending how OVMF got compiled) do work. > > I have never been getting debug output from the OVMF started by Xen. > What I didn't know is that firmware images are compiled into the hvmloader > so that just replacing the ovmf.bin DOES NOT work. > > I must have had a 32-bit ovmf.bin on the filesystem when I was compiling > xen-tools; after replacing it with a 64-bit version and rebuilding > xen-tools things started to work. Sorry for not being able to help. Now that you got this working, do you think you could send a patch(es) to add OVMF support to the xen-tools package? I'm more than happy to add this functionality (and maintain the OVMF package if needed). Thanks, Roger. ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: UEFI trouble with OVMF under Xen - nothing boots - SOLVED
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > > This is a follow up to the UEFI Windows boot problems > > reported after 4.7 got imported: > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2016-June/002745.html > > > > I am using FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #6 r314708: Mon Mar 6 13:09:31 UTC 2017 > > r...@o.saper.info:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 as dom0 > > > > In the 4.5 times I could install and boot Windows 2016 Technical Preview 5 > > without > > major problems. In fact, I started using this as my default Windows > > environment - it was working very well and very fast. > So, for the archives: I have compiled the newest OVMF git master in the DEBUG mode and found out that under normal qemu both I/O debug port 0x402 logging or serial port logging (depending how OVMF got compiled) do work. I have never been getting debug output from the OVMF started by Xen. What I didn't know is that firmware images are compiled into the hvmloader so that just replacing the ovmf.bin DOES NOT work. I must have had a 32-bit ovmf.bin on the filesystem when I was compiling xen-tools; after replacing it with a 64-bit version and rebuilding xen-tools things started to work. Sorry for noise! Marcin ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: UEFI trouble with OVMF under Xen - nothing boots
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > This is a follow up to the UEFI Windows boot problems > reported after 4.7 got imported: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2016-June/002745.html > > I am using FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #6 r314708: Mon Mar 6 13:09:31 UTC 2017 > r...@o.saper.info:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 as dom0 > > In the 4.5 times I could install and boot Windows 2016 Technical Preview 5 > without > major problems. In fact, I started using this as my default Windows > environment - it was working very well and very fast. A follow up to this: I have tried a pure qemu installed from packages: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -bios /usr/local/share/ovmf/ovmf.bin \ -no-shutdown \ -nodefaults -no-user-config \ -name Windows2016Pure -vnc 127.0.0.1:0,to=99 \ -display none -device VGA,vgamem_mb=16 \ -boot order=c \ -usb -usbdevice tablet -smp 2,maxcpus=2 \ -device rtl8139,id=nic0,netdev=net0,mac=00:16:3e:5d:0d:48 \ -netdev type=tap,id=net0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no \ -machine pc -m 4080 \ -drive file=/dev/zvol/zroot/windows0,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=raw,cache=writeback and the boot process goes easily past the OVMF and continues booting, only to fail "Inaccessible boot device" Windows message much later (probably because I was using XenPV drivers there). Marcin ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
