Bug#822941: debian-installer: cannot boot installed on VirtualBox with EFI-enabled
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:33:47PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
>Package: debian-installer
>Severity: important
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
> I found user notes Debian on VBox with EFI enabled environment cannot
> boot, see http://qiita.com/zakuro9715/items/45e82473ce39914e04ed (in Japanese)
>
> I've confirmed it with d-i9 alpha5.
> And, it doesn't happen with Fedora 24 alpha and Ubuntu 16.04.
>
>
>Step to reproduce:
>
> 1. setup Virtualbox VM with EFI enabled
> 2. install Debian
> 3. after installation, turn of VM
> 4. turn on VM again
> 5. not bootable, startup EFI shell
Do we know what version of Virtualbox? That could be a major factor
here. I've just a test installation using the UEFI support in the
virtualbox package in Jessie (4.3.36), which is labelled as
"experimental support". It shows the same behaviour as described, but
that's a limitation of the virtualbox UEFI support rather than a
problem in Debian - the underlying virtualbox isn't saving EFI
variables persistently.
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