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Asked: 2014-08-20 06:05:02 +0800 CST

boot XEN under UEFI-only BIOS

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Is there a way to get XEN 4.4 booting from UEFI mode BIOS? My AMD64bit laptop does not support direct CSM/legacy boots.

A nasty workaround has been to boot from a specially made USB pendrive with grub-efi-amd64-signed , which has proven problematic.

Linux Kernel 3.16.0-9-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux itself boots fine, except that it refuses to load the listed Xen kernels/hypervisors and loops right back to the Grub menu if tried.

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There seems to be NO clear information from XenProject about EFI status, but through much blood and error it seems unsupported. This is the problem preventing my Xen-enabled kernel from loading:

Loading Xen 4.4-amd64 ...
error: Secure Boot forbids loading module from (hd0,gpt5)/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/multiboot.mod
boot

1 Answers

  1. its sad no one helped here. in general I see a little help from the community for the crazy people who want to start a xen guest.

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