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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 2016 22:24:46 -0500
From:      Georgios Amanakis <g_amanakis@yahoo.com>
To:        Trent Thompson <trentnthompson@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: UEFI with Linux guests
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Trent,

Thank you for the valuable feedback. Indeed I successfully run
archlinux by using the UEFI binaries on the bhyve FAQ page and
appending "console=3DttyS0" to the boot option of GRUB.

Regards,=C2=A0
George

On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 11:11 -0700, Trent Thompson wrote:
> George,
>=20
> I've had limited success in running Linux guests using UEFI. When
> using the NON-CSM firmware, I can manually edit the GRUB menu to
> force a serial console to be used.=C2=A0
>=20
> I can then boot into the install environment and get the distro
> installed to the hard disk. After installation is done, I can start
> the guest with UEFI firmware again and have a usable OS.=C2=A0
> There is a pretty major catch though, after I destroy the guest using
> bhyvectl, then try to boot it once more with UEFI, it will fail to
> boot correctly (hard drive error, if I recall).
>=20
> I never got as far as trying it out with the CSM firmware, though.=C2=A0=
=C2=A0
>=20
> I've tried this on a few different Linux "flavors" but I have not
> tried Arch specifically.=C2=A0
>=20
> I hope any of this helps!
>=20
> -Trent
>=20



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