Arch Linux UEFI Bhyve Setup

[Vincent Olivier]

Hi Peter! Thanks for this. I’m going to look at how to rebuild an Archlinux ISO with that extra option later this week and see how it goes. Regards,

Vincent


> Le 2 janv. 2017 à 15:52, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Vincent,
> 
>> I guess my resolution for 2017 is more clarity.
>> 
>> So what I mean to know with this experiment is simply this: can UEFI
>> be used with a serial console (i.e.: without a graphic console), if
>> so, is it preferable over GRUB for Linux distros that support UEFI?
>> 
>> Until I am positive about using UEFI over serial console, I will
>> stick to GRUB but if someone coule elaborate on this, I would
>> appreciate it greatly!
> 
> It does work, but you have to either edit the grub.conf on the install ISO and repack, or get in quick and edit the grub command line and add a 'console=ttyS0' option.
> 
> grub-bhyve auto-inserts the serial console line into the linux kernel boot options which is why it appears a little more seamless.
> 
> UEFI does have the advantage that the system is self-consistent - any boot filesystem can be used, whereas grub-bhyve only understands the ones that are built into it.
> 
> later,
> 
> Peter.
>