Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:47:46 -0500 From: Vincent Olivier <vincent@up4.com> To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Arch Linux UEFI Bhyve Setup Message-ID: <A4832DD5-F2DE-4A16-ACF8-E57AD107CA6D@up4.com> In-Reply-To: <850ef0cd-131a-8c18-ee0a-fe044293360d@freebsd.org> References: <E37D5989-6675-4EF9-937C-54E29766DAC3@up4.com> <680F62F7-9FD7-4FB3-A60A-DED3C784BE7F@up4.com> <dc972f59-db08-132a-7d60-f813ee9a79e1@freebsd.org> <A360F436-D9C6-4731-8C54-07134970CFDF@up4.com> <8D5F1A67-DC29-4443-8128-B590CCC4B219@up4.com> <850ef0cd-131a-8c18-ee0a-fe044293360d@freebsd.org>
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Hi Peter, It works! Thanks so much to everyone who helped me! I will see about the stability of this thing in the next few days. If it is as stable as the MBR/GRUB VMs, I will redo them all. Regards, Vincent > Le 9 janv. 2017 à 01:28, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> a écrit : > > Hi Vincent, > >> Nothing works with UEFI console for me so I think I’m going to stick >> with BIOS-MBR-GRUB for now, unless you have an idea I can try… > > The live ISO can be repacked to work with a serial console. The only complication is that the systemd-boot (aka gummiboot, Arch's UEFI loader) are embedded in a FAT filesystem image. > > The repack steps are: > > 1. Install the cdrtools-devel package to get mkisofs > > 2. Extract the contents of the Arch iso into a working directory > > # cd /path/to/work_dir > # tar xf /path/to/archlinux-2017.01.01-dual.iso > > 3. Find the label of the ISO (to be used in the repack) > > # isoinfo -d -i /path/to/archlinux-2017.01.01-dual.iso | grep ^Volume\ id > Volume id: ARCH_201701 > > 4. Set up a vnode-backed md for the FAT boot image and mount it > > # mdconfig -f EFI/archiso/efiboot.img > # mount_msdosfs /dev/md0 /mnt > > 5. Edit the config file, adding serial console lines to the 'options' line > > # vi /mnt/loader/entries/archiso-x86_64.conf > .... > options archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201701 console=tty0 console=ttyS0 > > 6. Unmount the filesystem (updating the FAT filesystem image) and cleanup the md > > # umount /mnt > # mdconfig -d -u 0 > > 7. Repack the ISO, using the volume ID from step 3. Change the > name of the repacked iso to whatever is suitable with the '-o' > parameter. > > # mkisofs \ > -iso-level 3 \ > -V "ARCH_201701" \ > -J -joliet-long \ > -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot -c isolinux/boot.cat \ > -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ > -eltorito-alt-boot -eltorito-platform 0xEF \ > -eltorito-boot EFI/archiso/efiboot.img \ > -no-emul-boot \ > -o ../arch_repack.iso . > > The system can now be booted with a serial console. An example command line with serial output on the nmdm device is > > bhyve \ > -c 2 \ > -s 0,hostbridge \ > -s 3,ahci-cd,/path/to/arch_repack.iso \ > -s 10,virtio-net,tap0 \ > -l bootrom,/path/to/BHYVE_UEFI_20160526.fd \ > -l com1,/dev/nmdm0A \ > -s 31,lpc \ > -m 2G -H -w \ > arch > > later, > > Peter. > >help
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