Friday, October 23, 2020

Re: OpenBSD UEFI on QEMU emulator

On 10/22/2020 11:22 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:37:31PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
>> On 10/22/2020 9:59 PM, Kevin Shell wrote:
>>> Hello misc@.
>>>
>>> I want to try out OpenBSD UEFI.
>>> How to install OpenBSD with UEFI boot on qemu?
>> The installer does prompt you during disk setup.
>>> The install68.iso has no UEFI support.
>> This is not true.
> It does not include a fat fs el torito image with efiboot only
> cdbr for mbr.

Ya, my bad. I interpreted what he meant there differently. I thought he was
implying there was no EFI support at all post-install. On any X86 hardware
where I don't run Windows I typically keep CSM enabled. As I find I am more
likely to have to boot something that still requires MBR like from a USB key
to do firmware updates, though I have seen some EFI compatible update
images for some things. But I have heard of systems without CSM, since it is
optional. I see how this would be an issue with EFI only environments.

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