Friday, October 23, 2020

Re: OpenBSD UEFI on QEMU emulator

Please don't To or Cc me, I'm on the list.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:49:13PM +0900, YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:59:24 +0800
> Kevin Shell <kshell@gmx.com> wrote:
> > I want to try out OpenBSD UEFI.
> > How to install OpenBSD with UEFI boot on qemu?
> > The install68.iso has no UEFI support.
> > My following command on Linux can't boot OpenBSD UEFI.
> >
> > qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm \
> > -machine q35 \
> > -cpu host \
> > -smp cores=4,threads=1 \
> > -m 1G \
> > -bios /usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd \
> > -drive file=install68.img,format=raw
>
> Does the drive of "install68.img" appear on the boot menu on BIOS?
>

Oh finally I figure out how to boot OpenBSD from the UEFI shell.
But the qemu window gets very height and can't resize and I can't see the
bottom lines of texts, the font is *really* small.

> At least on my linux machine,
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -smp cores=4,threads=1 -m 1G
> -bios /usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd
> -drive file=install68.img,format=raw
>
> doesn't boot as well. The drive doesn't appear on the boot menu.
> But by removing "-machine q35" from the line, it booted successfully.

Maybe removing "-machine q35" makes
qemu works in BIOS compatible mode, not UEFI mode?

--
kevin

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