Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 22:24:46 -0500 From: Georgios Amanakis <g_amanakis@yahoo.com> To: Trent Thompson <trentnthompson@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UEFI with Linux guests Message-ID: <1452741886.7959.1.camel@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE7bWBqEf%2B_8LEvUaAhBZ_8J=LWbpoiqcKfzAQT=0e7h0gHMQQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <1452703487.2393.2.camel@yahoo.com> <CAE7bWBqEf%2B_8LEvUaAhBZ_8J=LWbpoiqcKfzAQT=0e7h0gHMQQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Trent, Thank you for the valuable feedback. Indeed I successfully run archlinux by using the UEFI binaries on the bhyve FAQ page and appending "console=3DttyS0" to the boot option of GRUB. Regards,=C2=A0 George On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 11:11 -0700, Trent Thompson wrote: > George, >=20 > I've had limited success in running Linux guests using UEFI. When > using the NON-CSM firmware, I can manually edit the GRUB menu to > force a serial console to be used.=C2=A0 >=20 > I can then boot into the install environment and get the distro > installed to the hard disk. After installation is done, I can start > the guest with UEFI firmware again and have a usable OS.=C2=A0 > There is a pretty major catch though, after I destroy the guest using > bhyvectl, then try to boot it once more with UEFI, it will fail to > boot correctly (hard drive error, if I recall). >=20 > I never got as far as trying it out with the CSM firmware, though.=C2=A0= =C2=A0 >=20 > I've tried this on a few different Linux "flavors" but I have not > tried Arch specifically.=C2=A0 >=20 > I hope any of this helps! >=20 > -Trent >=20
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