Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-25 Thread John Mok
Hi Didier, Yes, I set BIOS='ovmf', and the Debian installation showed UEFI installer. Best regards, On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 3:47 PM didier gaumet wrote: > > Le 25/02/2021 à 14:03, John Mok a écrit : > [...] > > I think it is related to Xen HVM + OVMF. > > > > Anyone has an idea what went wrong

Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le 25/02/2021 à 14:03, John Mok a écrit : [...] I think it is related to Xen HVM + OVMF. Anyone has an idea what went wrong ? Hello, did you use the "bios='ovmf'" option in the xl.cfg file of your Debian Xen guest? By default, even if OVMF is installed/present on your OS host, Xen uses Sea

Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-25 Thread John Mok
Hi didier, Thanks for prompt reply. I installed Debian Buster with UEFI boot on my ThinkPad P52 successfully without any boot problem. I think it is related to Xen HVM + OVMF. Anyone has an idea what went wrong ? Thanks. John Mok On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 16:50 didier gaumet wrote: > > I have

Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-24 Thread didier gaumet
I have never used Xen but I use Qemu/KVM via virtmanager on a Debian 10 host. I have installed several UEFI (OVMF) booting guest OSes, including Debian with no particular problem. The problem of your Debian guest not booting could be caused by the Debian installer not being run in UEFI mode

Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-23 Thread John Mok
Hi, Tried to install Buster on Xen HVM + OVMF. Installation completed successfully, but unable to boot (Windows HVM guest has no boot problem). Re-install Buster with BIOS and boot succeeded. OVMF boot NOT supported on Debian ? I hope someone could point me in the right direction. Best regards,