Dear Maintainer,
(also posted on
https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/1188d50b6c/)
I am having 2 strange problems when running the combination of debian 11
(bullseye) in qemu with UEFI/refind.
The first one is that, contrary to the versions in debian 10, I cannot
boot the system anymore without attaching a graphics environment to
it. The system just gives me a screen dump and refuses to boot.
sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -drive
if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd -drive
if=pflash,format=raw,file=./bullseye-unstable-1.04.12-amd64-20210903-114025.nvars.fd
-drive
format=qcow2,file=./bullseye-unstable-1.04.12-amd64-20210903-114025.qcow2
-drive format=qcow2,file=ssd-disk.qcow2 -device
e1000,netdev=net0,mac=52:54:82:8b:e9:ed -netdev tap,id=net0 -device
e1000,netdev=net1,mac=52:54:4f:84:9c:24 -netdev tap,id=net1 -m 4G -cpu host
-smp 2
add the -nographic flag and the system, and the system is drops a
shell dump.
13:36:28
�[2J�[01;01H�[=3h�[2J�[01;01H�[2J�[01;01H�[=3h�[2J�[01;01H�[2J�[01;01H�[=3h�[2J�[01;01H�[0m�[35m�[40m�[2J�[01;01H�[=3h�[2J�[01;01H�[0m�[37m�[40m!!!!
X64 Exception Type - 0D(#GP - General Protection) CPU Apic ID - 00000000
!!!!
13:36:28 ExceptionData - 0000000000000000
13:36:28 RIP - 00000000BFF1411A, CS - 0000000000000038, RFLAGS -
0000000000010206
13:36:28 RAX - 0000000000000004, RCX - 0000000000000010, RDX -
0000000000000002
13:36:28 RBX - AFAFAFAFAFAFAFAF, RSP - 00000000BFF039C0, RBP -
00000000BFF03A9C
13:36:28 RSI - 00000000BFF03A9C, RDI - AFAFAFAFAFAFAFAF
13:36:28 R8 - 0000000000000002, R9 - 0000000000000000, R10 -
0000000000000000
13:36:28 R11 - 0000000000000C80, R12 - 00000000BFF03B68, R13 -
00000000BE370C80
13:36:28 R14 - 00000000BE36F100, R15 - 00000000BFF03B60
13:36:28 DS - 0000000000000030, ES - 0000000000000030, FS -
0000000000000030
13:36:28 GS - 0000000000000030, SS - 0000000000000030
13:36:28 CR0 - 0000000080010033, CR2 - 0000000000000000, CR3 -
00000000BFC01000
13:36:28 CR4 - 0000000000000668, CR8 - 0000000000000000
13:36:28 DR0 - 0000000000000000, DR1 - 0000000000000000, DR2 -
0000000000000000
13:36:28 DR3 - 0000000000000000, DR6 - 00000000FFFF0FF0, DR7 -
0000000000000400
13:36:28 GDTR - 00000000BFBEE698 0000000000000047, LDTR - 0000000000000000
13:36:28 IDTR - 00000000BF2A2018 0000000000000FFF, TR - 0000000000000000
13:36:28 FXSAVE_STATE - 00000000BFF03620
13:36:28 !!!! Find image based on IP(0xBFF1411A)
/build/edk2-fUa9k0/edk2-0~20181115.85588389/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC49/X64/MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/DxeMain/DEBUG/DxeCore.dll
(ImageBase=00000000BFF04000, EntryPoint=00000000BFF062A0) !!!!
This is annoying for automated testing and integration.
However, the major nuisance, and I've not been able to resolve this or
debug it, is that a system that was installed with a debian installler iso
file does not seem to boot anymore with refind, using the same command
line as above, while performing exactly the same install/script with
buster does allow the system to boot and a real HW system (installed
with the same iso file) does boot with refind (both buster and bullseye).
Actually, small correction, it boots with refind (as it shows the
background, cf. config), but it does not show the menu, nor does it
perform any action.
menuentry "Linux A" {
icon /EFI/refind/icons/os_debian.png
volume boot_a
loader /vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64
initrd /initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64
options "root=/dev/mapper/dsk00-root_a ro quiet consoleblank=0
fsprotect fsck.mode=skip console=ttyS0 reboot=pci"
}
banner banner.png
banner_scale fillscreen
default_selection "Linux A,"
One small modification I needed to do (while porting for bullseye),
was to add the slash in front of the loader/initrd (was not needed in
buster) to get it to boot on hardware with debian 11 and a small fix to
the installer script [1].
However after booting the same system (so installed with debian
netinst/refind/no-grub), installing grub in rescue mode (grub-mkdconfig,
grub-install), does allow to boot the system (using grub).
This only happens in bullseye (debian 11), not in buster (debian 10).
I am wondering if I have missed a configuration change or perhaps am
using a wrong configuration setting that got deprecated in the debian 11
version.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991945