Xen from ports won't boot using -CURRENT

[Dustin Marquess]

AH-HA! Indeed I am.  Is UEFI not supported?

-Dustin

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 01:24:46AM -0500, Dustin Marquess wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm using a -CURRENT install from a couple of weeks ago:
> >
> > FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r297495: Fri Apr  1 21:24:26 UTC 2016
> >
> > I installed xen from ports and followed the instructions on setting up:
> >
> > /etc/sysctl.conf
> >
> > /etc/ttys
> >
> > /boot/loader.conf
> >
> > /boot/menu.rc.local
> >
> >
> > However after rebooting, booting fails with:
> >
> >
> > don't know how to load module '/boot/xen'
> >
> >
> > I'm guessing it's because for some reason it got compiled as 32-bit:
> >
> >
> > /boot/xen: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
> > statically linked, stripped
>
> Xen is always going to present itself as a 32-bit executable, although it's
> only the entry point that runs in 32bit mode, then it jumps into long mode
> by itself.
>
> Are you maybe trying to boot it from UEFI? (using the UEFI loader)
>
> Roger.
>