Why can't I boot any ISOs in Bhyve, getting frustrating.

[diskdiddler]

Please.

I'm pretty sure I managed to successfully RAW my VBox file - perhaps I DD'd it into the ZVOL wrong?
What do I need to do precisely, I'll write a guide after.

 

[diskdiddler]

Ok, made some progress. Installed dietpi via UEFI iso in Vbox. Converted VDI to RAW file. Copied RAW file to FN and used dd to copy RAW file to a zvol. Bhyve still drops to EFI shell but you can navigate to efi files. It falls to boot. Looks like I failed to correctly turn VDI into a useable zvol. I'll leave it for today.

Hi Kris.

I did exactly the following:

I made a new ZVOL, 10,000MB, no compression, no deuplication, no force size.
I typed

dd if=/mnt/ARRAY/media/DietPi.RAW of=/dev/zvol/SSD/VM/DPi
It copied in (slowly) at around 33MB/s
(Raw file is only 8GB)

Then I added a disk to my VM
Pointed to the ZVOL
Mode: AHCI
Sector Default (16)
Order 1

When I boot into it, end of the day, I can't type "fs0" like you can.
"fs0" is not a correct mapping.
So I need to know if my RAW file is no good, or my methodology is no good?

 

[diskdiddler]

Bingo! Not sure why dd from VDI to zvol went wrong 1st time, but this dietpi on bhyve. ( EFI boot and fdisk size mismtch to fix)

So Kris, what did you do to get this going?

I downloaded this file:
(LINK)

I then double clicked the OVA which imported a pre-built DietPi Virtual Box into Vbox - resulting in a VMDK file that has never been booted (!) nice and clean and fresh (?)


I then used Vboxmanage to convert this clean VMDK into a RAW file, on my new Ubuntu system I did this on, I got no errors during the conversion this time,........ (so I thought I'd finally solved this)

I then DD'd this RAW file into a ZVOL and used that ZVOL to try and boot, but no luck.
Do I need to do something else to make it bootable?

I'd really like to make a 'clean' RAW file for people, easy to import into FreeNAS.

 

[diskdiddler]

Ok I have progressed, it's a sloppy setup which makes me sad but it works.

It will *NOT* boot on its own.
I can manually navigate through the menu to "boot from file" choose GRUB64 in the EFI dir and it works.

How do I commit this to disk so it actually boots.

 

[diskdiddler]

Anyone? PLEASE see post above - it's the last thing I need, I'm sorry but I'm not smart enough.

I believe I need to lay down some bootable files to the OS, simple as that - does anyone know what the precise commands I need to do are?
Can I do it from within the OS, once I manually boot the Grub file or do I need to revert to booting from the original ISO to then lay down the files?

Anyone?

 

[diskdiddler]

I was able to follow your lead and get the same outcome.

I was also able to get it to boot automatically by copying /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi (needed to mkdir /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT first)

This command, did not render my system bootable sadly.

EDIT: wrong - just needed to note the filename change too - thanks !