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From: Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org>
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Subject: Re: Running grub-bhyve in the background???
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 15:53:45 +0100
Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> wrote:

> A inbetween sulution at the moment is to run grub-bhyve -c /dev/null.
> That continues, dus does not offer the possibility to interfere in the
> boot process. At least not for my ubuntu-12.04 VMs.

I hacked around that problem by writing one bit into the nmdm device.
Or to say it in code:

true > $NMDMB &
sleep 0.5
/usr/local/sbin/grub-bhyve -r $BOOT -m $MAP -M $MEMORY -c $NMDMA $NAME &

It's not a nice solution but at least it works reliable. 

Regards,
Yamagi

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