Re: ALPHA-3 diskless + bhyve issues

> On 10 Oct 2025, at 00:33, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7

hi,
no answer yet, but after some experimenting:
boots diskless:
	if no local disk - dah
	if local disk and no EFI partition
	if local disk has the above but no valid root partition
and finally if root partition and efi but no bootx64.efi ( i just move it to bootx64.efix)

thanks,
	danny
ps: i guess i forgot to mention that the host is running in bhyve (14.3)
pass: it’s now alpha-5