Hi Vincent,
So after a minute or two, I get the UEFI Shell and when I exit, I get something that appears to be the bhyve BIOS (?) when I go from there to the Boot Maintenance Manager, and then « Boot From File » I can select the block device, then <EFI>, then <ubuntu>, then grubx64.efi and then I get the Grub menu from which I can select Ubuntu, which in turn boots the OS just fine. Now, the question is, can I configure bhyve to look for that file instead of whatever it is currently looking for and not finding? Or do I have to modify the ESP?
This is a known issue in that UEFI nvvars aren't written to permanent storage (e.g. see https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2016-September/004808.html). A number of guest o/s's use nvvars to handle boot order/non-standard boot loader names etc, and expect changes to these to be persistent.
There is a fix that just needs to be comitted (to both bhyve and UEFI/bhyve). Hope to get to that soon.
later, Peter. _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
