From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jan 24 12:34:57 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E20DCBE713 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:34:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca) Received: from doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (doctor.nl2k.ab.ca [204.209.81.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47890FCA for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:34:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca) Received: from doctor by doctor.nl2k.ab.ca with local (Exim 4.88) (envelope-from ) id 1cW0IP-000IIJ-3A; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 05:33:57 -0700 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 05:33:57 -0700 From: The Doctor To: Eric Melville Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bhyve centos7 Message-ID: <20170124123357.GA67510@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:34:57 -0000 On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 01:48:49AM -0800, Eric Melville wrote: > I am trying to run Centos7 under bhyve. Centos6 works great. Centos7 gets problematic because of XFS. > > Since grub2-bhyve does not understand XFS, and for some bizarre reason Centos has no ability to change partitioning or file system types in the textual installer, I took more drastic measures. One of which was to boot the Centos7 installer via Virtual Box and set up a VMDK with ext4, then pull that VMDK and convert it ro raw with qemu-img. At least I was able to get a kernel loaded and booting, but then it failed to mount the root file system no matter what options I specified. > > Has anyone else gotten further? I did install Centos 7 with grub2-bhyve and with UEFI Not using XFS in FreeBsd 11. And it is still working. Same with current versions od Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca God,Queen and country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! http://www.fullyfollow.me/rootnl2k Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism Birthdate 29 Jan 1969 Redhill Surrey England