From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Tue Oct 9 10:41:48 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1F910C949E for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2018 10:41:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcy@druid.net) Received: from mail.vex.net (mail.vex.net [98.158.139.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F110B81F65 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2018 10:41:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcy@druid.net) Received: from dilbert.druid.net (dilbert.druid.net [207.35.13.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: darcy) by mail.vex.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C36934A478A7 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2018 06:41:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Error installing Xubuntu under bhyve To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org References: <21bcfbf0-e0f9-0250-097d-5a5b2e372056@druid.net> From: D'Arcy Cain Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <6ac9ed7e-8d92-5933-e097-306dc54a01d1@druid.net> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 06:41:46 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <21bcfbf0-e0f9-0250-097d-5a5b2e372056@druid.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:41:48 -0000 On 10/8/18 6:14 PM, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > I am trying to install Xubuntu under bhyve with vm-bhyve. The install I had a private email with some suggestions. They didn't work but I thought I should mention them here for discussion purposes. > goes fine right up to near the end when it fails with a "Executing > 'grub-install /dev/vda' failed" error and the install fails. A second > attempt says that there is a system already on the disk but it won't > boot up and leaves the console at a grub prompt. I have grub2-bhyve > installed. Here is my config: > > guest="linux" > uefi="yes" > loader="grub" > grub_run_partition="msdos1" He said that I don't need the grub lines if I am using uefi. Those lines were actually added in as a Hail Mary. In or out made no difference. > disk0_type="virtio-blk" He suggested ahci-hd. It made no difference. He also suggested starting over with a new disk but that didn't help either. Still looking for suggestions. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 788 2246 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. IM: darcy@Vex.Net, VoIP: sip:darcy@druid.net