Re: Booting CDs in Qemu

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:54:08AM -0500, Robert Nestor wrote:
> OK, I tried doing this with just the rEFInd CD and it still didn't boot - just get a blank screen.  Since you did this by copying the rEFInd files over to a bootable NetBSD CD (or did you copy them to an installed NetBSD disk?)  the two CD aren?t configured the same way.  Neither CD has an MSDOS partition/wedge for EFI and I can?t find where the files for UEFI booting are on the NetBSD CD.  My understanding of UEFI is that the boot files must live in an MSDOS/FAT partition, though that doesn't explain how or why the rEFInd CD boots on real HW via UEFI.
> 
> So I'm even more confused now.

Isn't this a plain QEMU (or more likely: qemu firmware) issue?
I would suggest to report it upstream.

Martin