Re: ALPHA-3 diskless + bhyve issues

On Tue, 23 Sep 2025, Daniel Braniss wrote:

> So after many years, I tried to install instead of upgrading,
> and after much fiddling (if anyone is interested I can write how I did i) I got it to
> install, now here is my problem:
> when the the local disk was empty, loader.efi is called (this via dhcp) and it boots diskless,
> but now that the disk is populated, it boots from it.
>
> Q: how can I have it boot diskless again?

I haven't seen an answer.  Have you tried the freebsd-virtualization list?

I assume you could interrupt the boot process if fast enough (but it's the blink of an eye);
so you'll most likely be more successful putting a startup.nsh and possibly an EFI shell in the EFI System Partition (ESP) and script it?  Could be the bhyve firmware brings the efi shell along already?

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7