On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 7:54 AM Robert Nestor wrote:
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> OK, I tried doing this with just the rEFInd CD and it still didn’t boot -
> just get a blank screen. Since you did this by copying the rEFInd files over
> to a bootable NetBSD CD (or did you copy them to an installed NetBSD disk?)
> the
BTW I did another test on that refind.iso fine - under VirtualBox
6.1.12. It works just fine here. The guest was an earlier -current
system, already booting in EFI mode (pivoting to a ZFS root, not
updated very recently). I was able to boot from the CD, then install
rEFInd on the first system disk
If you’re saying you think the rEFInd CD is expecting to find Apple HW that
doesn’t explain why it boots on my Intel PC. I haven’t tried booting it on a
Mac.
If you’re saying that the CD is incompatible with qemu because qemu is
expecting to see or be emulating Mac HW that doesn’t seem to be th
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 18:34, Robert Nestor wrote:
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> If you’re saying you think the rEFInd CD is expecting to find Apple HW that
> doesn’t explain why it boots on my Intel PC. I haven’t tried booting it on a
> Mac.
>
> If you’re saying that the CD is incompatible with qemu because qemu is
> ex
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 14:21, Robert Nestor wrote:
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> Thanks again! Your patience and suggestions have helped a lot and (I think)
> I have a much better understanding of the whole process now.
>
> As Martin wrote, it appears to be an issue or limitation in qemu with UEFI
> booting CDs. Probabl
Thanks again! Your patience and suggestions have helped a lot and (I think) I
have a much better understanding of the whole process now.
As Martin wrote, it appears to be an issue or limitation in qemu with UEFI
booting CDs. Probably that the OVMF code is very specific in where it looks
for t
Yes, that’s what I’m now suspecting. But when I started I didn’t know enough
about qemu and the CD booting process with UEFI to know if it was my error or a
bug someplace. Plus my system isn’t running 9.99.69 with current packages, so
it could be that I’m missing something that’s already been
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:54:08AM -0500, Robert Nestor wrote:
> OK, I tried doing this with just the rEFInd CD and it still didn't boot -
> just get a blank screen. Since you did this by copying the rEFInd files over
> to a bootable NetBSD CD (or did you copy them to an installed NetBSD disk?)
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 12:54, Robert Nestor wrote:
>
> OK, I tried doing this with just the rEFInd CD and it still didn’t boot -
> just get a blank screen. Since you did this by copying the rEFInd files over
> to a bootable NetBSD CD (or did you copy them to an installed NetBSD disk?)
> the tw
OK, I tried doing this with just the rEFInd CD and it still didn’t boot - just
get a blank screen. Since you did this by copying the rEFInd files over to a
bootable NetBSD CD (or did you copy them to an installed NetBSD disk?) the two
CD aren’t configured the same way. Neither CD has an MSDOS
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 02:35, Robert Nestor wrote:
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> OK, thanks! I’m not sure I fully understand what you mean by “moved the
> relevant file to the top”. Do you mean you moved the \EFI\boot\bootx64.efi
> file to \EFI\bootx64.efi?
I wrote this too late in the night. I mean I got into the EFI
OK, thanks! I’m not sure I fully understand what you mean by “moved the
relevant file to the top”. Do you mean you moved the \EFI\boot\bootx64.efi
file to \EFI\bootx64.efi?
There was an old reference I found in my search that seemed to imply this was
a solution, but then I don’t see how th
Just dawned on me, I’m betting the NetBSD CD is configured to boot either via
BIOS or UEFI and Qemu is probably trying BIOS first since that’s its default.
-bob
On Aug 6, 2020, at 6:20 PM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> With:
>
>
> /usr/pkg/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
>-device qemu-xhci \
>
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 01:11, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
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> On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 01:05, Robert Nestor wrote:
> >
> > Just dawned on me, I’m betting the NetBSD CD is configured to boot either
> > via BIOS or UEFI and Qemu is probably trying BIOS first since that’s its
> > default.
>
> No, it definit
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 01:05, Robert Nestor wrote:
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> Just dawned on me, I’m betting the NetBSD CD is configured to boot either via
> BIOS or UEFI and Qemu is probably trying BIOS first since that’s its default.
No, it definitely says that it is booting in EFI mode. if you
interrupt it and drop
This helps a bit but still not quite there. Adding the “-device qemu-xhci
-device usb-tablet -machine q35” gets me to the BIOS menu screen, but even
after setting the boot device to the CDROM it still doesn’t boot up to the
rEFInd screen. Also adding “-accel mvmm” didn’t hurt but didn’t get me
With:
/usr/pkg/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
-device qemu-xhci \
-device usb-tablet \
-machine q35 \
-bios /usr/pkg/share/ovmf/OVMFX64.fd \
-m 4096 \
-k en-gb \
-smp 2 \
-accel nvmm \
-vnc :1 \
-drive format=raw,file=/dev/
Something simple I must be missing here. I downloaded the CD image of rEFInd
from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.12.0/refind-cd-0.12.0.zip/download
Burned it to a CD and tried booting that CD on my PC. It doesn’t boot using
BIOS, but it does boot using UEFI. So I kno
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