Re: Struggle with bhyve and Kali.

2024-12-08 Thread Bakul Shah
On Dec 8, 2024, at 10:41 AM, Mark Peek wrote: > > > > If using vm-bhyve and uefi, make sure these are set in the vm-bhyve config > file prior to installing: > loader="uefi" > uefi_vars="yes" Thanks. Though this doesn't solve the problem of a blank screen once you boot normally (not in recover

Re: Struggle with bhyve and Kali.

2024-12-08 Thread Mark Peek
On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 1:51 AM Chris Moerz wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Dec 2024, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > > That doesn't seem to help for kali. I found the binary, and I think it > boots... but it goes from the 1080p > > that I select for it down to some 4x3 resolution that is tiny. Then I > thi

Re: Struggle with bhyve and Kali.

2024-12-08 Thread Chris Moerz
On Sat, 7 Dec 2024, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > That doesn't seem to help for kali.  I found the binary, and I think it > boots... but it goes from the 1080p > that I select for it down to some 4x3 resolution that is tiny.  Then I think > X is up, but I don't get a > login or any other response

Re: Struggle with bhyve and Kali.

2024-12-07 Thread Bakul Shah
To check I did a graphical install of kali. After install, when bhyve exited, as root I did this (to let efiboot work in bhyve): mdconfig -a -t vnode -f kali.img # the filename I used for kali's disk mount -t msdosfs /dev/md0p1 /mnt cd /mnt/EFI mkdir BOOT cp kali/grubx64.efi BOOT/bootx64.efi cd u

Re: Struggle with bhyve and Kali.

2024-12-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
That doesn't seem to help for kali. I found the binary, and I think it boots... but it goes from the 1080p that I select for it down to some 4x3 resolution that is tiny. Then I think X is up, but I don't get a login or any other response to input other than a mouse cursor. Really, this should be

Re: Struggle with bhyve and Kali.

2024-12-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Is a bug filed to mark this yet? On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 8:27 PM Kyle Taylor wrote: > This happens to me when working with Debian on Bhyve (which Kali is based > on). Here's a description from the maintainer of the vm-bhyve port > explaining what's going on : > https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhy

Re: Struggle with bhyve and Kali.

2024-12-07 Thread Kyle Taylor
This happens to me when working with Debian on Bhyve (which Kali is based on). Here's a description from the maintainer of the vm-bhyve port explaining what's going on : https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/issues/336#issuecomment-573731049 . The fix is to rename the /boot entries so the Linux bo

Re: Struggle with bhyve and Kali.

2024-12-07 Thread Bakul Shah
This may help: https://record99.blogspot.com/2021/12/bdsdex-failed-to-load-boot0001-uefi-bhyve-sata-disk.html > On Dec 7, 2024, at 3:27 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > So... I've installed kali a few times on bhyve. Lately on 14.1 that is now > 14.2 (no change there). The graphical install

Re: Struggle with bhyve and Kali.

2024-12-07 Thread Chuck Tuffli
On Sat, Dec 7, 2024, at 3:27 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > So... I've installed kali a few times on bhyve. Lately on 14.1 that is now > 14.2 (no change there). The graphical install proceeds fine (using the vm > install command), and the first reboot (cd still attached) works fine. > > Subseq