Installed, but installation not found with EFI in VirtualBox

helloSystem / ISO

helloSystem Live and installation ISO

https://github.com/helloSystem/

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Closed grahamperrin closed 3 years ago

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

Booted live media with EFI, installed FreeBSD, restarted (from ISO), shut down, removed ISO from guest, started:

After stopping the guest then disabling EFI, boot succeeds.

probonopd commented 3 years ago

How can we know whether this is a helloSystem or a VirtualBox bug? How does NomadBSD behave? How does GhostBSD behave?

Note that we are not touching the ESP if there is one. Nor do we write anything with efibootmgr (yet).

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

Not a bug. PEBKAM! Apologies for the noise.

As the virtual machine originated without a virtual hard disk, so the IDE primary master was the optical drive.

The problem probably arose after I removed the primary master, leaving the .vdi as a slave.

With a fresh installation, and the .vdi moved to IDE primary master:

– boot succeeds.

probonopd commented 3 years ago

Thanks for verifying.