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On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:05 AM Guido Falsi wrote: Hi, On 28/04/21 00:12, parv wrote: > > I had updated FreeBSD, in VirtualBox 5.22 on Windows with EFI, from > > 12-STABLE > > to 13-STABLE; upgraded the ZFS pools & the EFI boot loader. Currently > > testing with 13 GENERIC kernel. > > You mean you enabled EFI inside virtualbox? Why do you need that? For testing if FreeBSD can boot with EFI (with ZFS-on-root) ... one day I may just install the thing directly on a disk, outside of a virtual machine ... one day! > EFI > support in VirtualBox is experimental and is available for OSes unable > to boot without EFI. FreeBSD is perfectly able to boot in virtualbox > without EFI so no need for it. > I am aware. > > Now on shutdown, "shutdown -p now" (in single user mode, after manually > > unmounting > > ZFS datasets [...] the shutting down process gets stuck, > > and CPU use jumps to 80% > ... > > In the end I chose "Power Off" from VirutalBox menu. "Reset" reboots the > > machine. > > None of these have any effect ... > > - Send the shutdown signal > > - ACPI Shutdown > > > > Help please. > Solved the issue via ... % sysctl hw.efi.poweroff=0 ... after that shudown went on as expected. Got that from ... https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-13-does-not-shut-down-my-laptop.79853/ NOt sure even which further information to ask about this, but to be > sure I understand correctly, FreeBSD is the guest here, correct? Yes, FreeBSD is the guest on Windows 10 host. - parv _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
