FreeBSD media boots Windows DevKit 2023 but VHDX copied from the media does not boot under Win11Pro Hyper-V
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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:12:57 UTC
I took a 224 GiByte or so FreeBSD boot media that
boots the Windows DevKit 2023 just fine:
From gpart show -p from such a boot:
=> 40 468862048 da0 GPT (224G)
40 32728 - free - (16M)
32768 532480 da0p1 efi (260M)
565248 7864320 da0p2 freebsd-swap (3.8G)
8429568 524288 - free - (256M)
8953856 8388608 da0p3 freebsd-swap (4.0G)
17342464 8388608 da0p4 freebsd-swap (4.0G)
25731072 440401920 da0p5 freebsd-ufs (210G)
466132992 2729096 - free - (1.3G)
From gpart show -pl from the boot:
=> 40 468862048 da0 GPT (224G)
40 32728 - free - (16M)
32768 532480 da0p1 PBefi (260M)
565248 7864320 da0p2 PBswp3p75 (3.8G)
8429568 524288 - free - (256M)
8953856 8388608 da0p3 PBswp4a (4.0G)
17342464 8388608 da0p4 PBswp4b (4.0G)
25731072 440401920 da0p5 PBsmallUFS (210G)
466132992 2729096 - free - (1.3G)
It has both package base kernels and personal builds:
# strings -f /boot/kernel*/kernel | grep ": FreeBSD [0-9][0-9]\.[0-9]-" | sort -k4,5 | sed -e "s@: @% @" | tr % "\n"
/boot/kernel.CA76-NODBG.old/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #2 main-n268827-75464941dc17-dirty: Sun Mar 17 18:44:08 PDT 2024
/boot/kernel.CA76-DBG.good/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #6 main-n271165-cb18ba9df52d-dirty: Fri Jul 12 11:09:16 PDT 2024
/boot/kernel.CA76-NODBG.good/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #6 main-n271165-cb18ba9df52d-dirty: Fri Jul 12 11:09:16 PDT 2024
/boot/kernel.CA76-DBG/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #7 main-n271413-1f7df7570174-dirty: Sat Jul 27 09:11:21 PDT 2024
/boot/kernel.CA76-NODBG/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #7 main-n271413-1f7df7570174-dirty: Sat Jul 27 09:11:21 PDT 2024
/boot/kernel.GENERIC-DEBUG.good/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT main-n271137-d68d12481778 GENERIC
/boot/kernel.GENERIC-NODEBUG.good/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT main-n271137-d68d12481778 GENERIC-NODEBUG
/boot/kernel/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT main-n271408-4fab5f005482 GENERIC
/boot/kernel.GENERIC-MMCCAM/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT main-n271408-4fab5f005482 GENERIC-MMCCAM
/boot/kernel.GENERIC-NODEBUG/kernel
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT main-n271408-4fab5f005482 GENERIC-NODEBUG
The boot world is a package base world.
I used the Windows 11 tool that can make a VHDX copy of
physical media to make such a copy.
Attempting to boot the result gets as far as showing the
EFI framebuffer information, which looks reasonable. But
the mask line is the last output in the console window.
All the kernel selections from the loader do that.
Is this expected? Is there a known potential work round?
Note: the context is for ssh based use, not video based
use. But it is go to see console messages if any occur.
Why Hyper-V? It is the context that I've usually used
to test (smaller) RAM and core-count combinations that I
do not have examples of. But I've done such on amd64
historically, not aarch64, other than possibly one prior
time. On amd64 the drive was internal PCI hardware and
no production of a VHDX file was required. On aarch64
with the USB based drive, direct use of the drive is
blocked, thus the use of a VHDX file produced from the
original media.
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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com