Hello!
I ordered a virtual machine that uses qemu and seabios. The boot menu shows the DVD drives, PXE etc, but not the HDD. The HDD is being detected in the live system (FreeBSD) and I was able to let the installer install the OS (FreeBSD 14.2) to it (GPT with bios-boot partition).
Are there any checks before a device is being listed in the boot menu, e.g. if there is an MBR partition with an active flag (already experienced that on some motherboards)?
I would like to exclude the OS as a source for the problem.
Is there a way to list all devices?
On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 08:43:56PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
Hello!
I ordered a virtual machine that uses qemu and seabios. The boot menu shows the DVD drives, PXE etc, but not the HDD. The HDD is being detected in the live system (FreeBSD) and I was able to let the installer install the OS (FreeBSD 14.2) to it (GPT with bios-boot partition).
Are there any checks before a device is being listed in the boot menu, e.g. if there is an MBR partition with an active flag (already experienced that on some motherboards)?
seabios does not look at the MBR. It does check the qemu boot order though. If present devices which are not included there might be skipped.
take care, Gerd
On 08.04.2025 11:51 Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 08:43:56PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
Hello!
I ordered a virtual machine that uses qemu and seabios. The boot menu shows the DVD drives, PXE etc, but not the HDD. The HDD is being detected in the live system (FreeBSD) and I was able to let the installer install the OS (FreeBSD 14.2) to it (GPT with bios-boot partition).
Are there any checks before a device is being listed in the boot menu, e.g. if there is an MBR partition with an active flag (already experienced that on some motherboards)?
seabios does not look at the MBR. It does check the qemu boot order though. If present devices which are not included there might be skipped.
Thanks for the reply. The support added the disk to the boot options and it now works.
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Gerd Hoffmann -
Marco Moock