running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

[Victor Sudakov]

Subbsd wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 11:15 AM Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:
> 
> > I'll look into the VirtualBox directory tomorrow and report here. I was
> > under the impression that efivars are stored in a configuration file in
> > the EFI partition but I was probably wrong, they are kept in NVRAM
> > somewhere, like BIOS settings, and not on a disk.
> 
> I just wanted to confirm that this is indeed an EVIVARS problem,
> because through CBSD (which uses Refind [1]) FreePBX 1805-2
> boots without any problems. Therefore, as Rodney said, you can try
> using a third-party EFI boot manager.
> And just wait until someone finds the time to add support for UEFI
> VARS in bhyve.
> 
> [1] - http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

Kudos to the FreeBSD team!

I've just discovered that when you install FreeBSD in UEFI mode, the
installer creates a /efi/boot/startup.nsh on the efi partition. So
FreeBSD would boot without any problems in VirtualBox with EFI, no need
for persistent efi variables.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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