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Subject: Re: Windows Server 2016 as guest on bhyve 4k emulated drive
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From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
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Hi Artur,

> if the option 'sectorsize=4096/4096' for the emulated drive specified, the
> installation process of "Windows Server 2016" completes the first stage
> ('Copying Windows files', 'Getting files ready for installation',
> 'Installing features' etc.) and fails after rebooting to the second stage.
>
> The second stage ends with the following message:
> Boot Failed. Windows Boot Manager
> Boot Failed. EFI DVD/CDROM
> Boot Failed. EFI DVD/CDROM 1
> Boot Failed. EFI Hard Drive
>
> I suppose that Windows Boot Manager has problems when booting the 4k
> emulated drive.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what can be the cause of this?

  I think it may be an issue with the AHCI driver in UEFI not returning 
the correct block size - will look into it further.

  I did verify that setting 'sectorsize=512/4096' works fine with 2k16.

later,

Peter.