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
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/kashyap
