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Date:      Fri, 04 May 2018 16:19:16 +0000
From:      Michael Reifenberger <mike@reifenberger.com>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>, Mike Gerdts <mike.gerdts@joyent.com>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Centos7 uefi boot problem with bhyve after update
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Zitat von "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>:

> Hi all,
>
>> Am 04.05.2018 um 15:41 schrieb Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>:
>>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>>> the fault here could be that of bootrom not reading the files it should
>>
>> That is exactly the issue. The current UEFI code does not save  
>> non-volatile variables to persistent storage. Guest o/s's are  
>> increasingly writing their efi loaders to non-standard locations  
>> and using nv vars to direct UEFI to boot from these locations.
>
> I recommend installing rEFInd to the default location /EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi.
> It will call the Centos boot loader automatically if this is the  
> only other one installed.
>
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
>

Thanks for the hint!
I installed rEFInd into /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT
This workaround works.

greetings
---
Mike

Gruß
---
Michael Reifenberger




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