Ubuntu 16.10 Guest, boot from efi/NVME failure

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wilbur.harvey
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Joined: 23. Jan 2009, 09:57
Primary OS: Ubuntu other
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Ubuntu 16.10 Guest, boot from efi/NVME failure

Post by wilbur.harvey »

VirtualBox version 5.1.12e112440
Host OS Windows 10 Pro
Guest OS Ubuntu 16.10

Using EFI option and NVME as the controller option, the system installed and booted without any issues.

After shutting down the system and attempting to reboot the following error message appears:
Boot Failed. EFI DVD/CDROM
Boot Failed. EFI Misc Device
.

Then after about a minute it drops to the EFI shell.

After some research, I found this:
In the EFI shell:
cd FS0:
edit startup.nsh, add the following 2 lines
FS0:
\EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi
Ctrl S Enter Enter to save file, Ctrl q to quit

Then i set the boot order
sudo efibootmgr -o 3,1 (boot to shell then device 1)

Now after the minute timeout, it drops to the shell and boots Ubuntu.

How can we make it boot normally?
aeichner
Oracle Corporation
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Re: Ubuntu 16.10 Guest, boot from efi/NVME failure

Post by aeichner »

Please create a ticket in our public bug tracker and attach the VBox.log there.
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