Re: Booting CDs in Qemu

[Robert Nestor <rnestor%mac.com@localhost>]

Yes, that’s what I’m now suspecting.  But when I started I didn’t know enough about qemu and the CD booting process with UEFI to know if it was my error or a bug someplace.  Plus my system isn’t running 9.99.69 with current packages, so it could be that I’m missing something that’s already been fixed.  I’m updating my system and installed packages to verify that the issue is still there, and if so, I’ll file a an issue with the qemu folks.

-bob

On Aug 7, 2020, at 7:44 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:54:08AM -0500, Robert Nestor wrote:
>> OK, I tried doing this with just the rEFInd CD and it still didn't boot - just get a blank screen.  Since you did this by copying the rEFInd files over to a bootable NetBSD CD (or did you copy them to an installed NetBSD disk?)  the two CD aren?t configured the same way.  Neither CD has an MSDOS partition/wedge for EFI and I can?t find where the files for UEFI booting are on the NetBSD CD.  My understanding of UEFI is that the boot files must live in an MSDOS/FAT partition, though that doesn't explain how or why the rEFInd CD boots on real HW via UEFI.
>> 
>> So I'm even more confused now.
> 
> Isn't this a plain QEMU (or more likely: qemu firmware) issue?
> I would suggest to report it upstream.
> 
> Martin