Problems with EFI
Posted: 14. May 2011, 18:03
Hello!
I wanted to experiment a bit with EFI, without luck.
I took a Gentoo 64 installer cd, tried to start the efi binary, but the guest just froze.
Turned off EFI, installed a Gentoo the normal way. Partitioned the virtual disk with GPT, made two partitions (EFI and data), created FAT32 on EFI. Installed elilo. It created the files on the FAT32.
I turned EFI back, then typed:
This appeared on the screen:
Then the guest hangs.
Also somehow the bootup process from starting the guest till getting an EFI shell is very slow, takes about a minute.
I wanted to experiment a bit with EFI, without luck.
I took a Gentoo 64 installer cd, tried to start the efi binary, but the guest just froze.
Turned off EFI, installed a Gentoo the normal way. Partitioned the virtual disk with GPT, made two partitions (EFI and data), created FAT32 on EFI. Installed elilo. It created the files on the FAT32.
I turned EFI back, then typed:
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fs0:
cd EFI
cd gentoo
elilo.efi
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ELILO v3.12 for EFI/x86_64
..
Also somehow the bootup process from starting the guest till getting an EFI shell is very slow, takes about a minute.