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@sally-makin, Jed here. I’m using a System76 Astra (Ampere processor) with Ubuntu 24.04. These steps do not get me any farther than the TianoCore BIOS. The BIOS does not appear to see any bootable filesystem devices.
sudo qemu-system-aarch64 \
-enable-kvm \
-m 1024 \
-cpu host \
-M virt \
-nographic \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=efi.img,readonly=on \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=varstore.img \
-drive if=none,format=raw,file=noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img,id=hd0 \
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
-netdev type=bridge,id=net0,br=virbr0 \
-device virtio-net,netdev=net0
These are the files in the directory:
$ ls -lh
total 761M
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jreynolds jreynolds 64M Feb 5 11:27 efi.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 jreynolds jreynolds 1.8G Jan 22 01:00 noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
-rwxrwxr-x 1 jreynolds jreynolds 463 Feb 5 17:17 run.sh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jreynolds jreynolds 64M Feb 5 17:02 varstore.img
These are the devices the UEFI shell sees:
Shell> devices
T D
Y C I
P F A
CTRL E G G #P #D #C Device Name
==== = = = == == === =========================================================
15 R - - 0 1 1 VenHw(D3987D4B-971A-435F-8CAF-4967EB627241)/Uart(38400,8,N,1)
3C R - - 0 2 0 VenHw(837DCA9E-E874-4D82-B29A-23FE0E23D1E2,003E000A00000000)
65 R - - 0 1 2 PciRoot(0x0)
7F D - - 1 0 0 Primary Console Input Device
80 D - - 1 0 0 Primary Console Output Device
81 D - - 1 0 0 Primary Standard Error Device
BA D - - 1 0 0 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)
BB B - - 1 2 1 Virtio Network Device
BD B - - 1 5 3 VT-100 Serial Console
BE B - - 1 8 10 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/MAC(525400123456,0x1)
BF D - - 1 0 0 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/MAC(525400123456,0x1)/VenHw(D79DF6B0-EF44-43BD-9797-43E93BCF5FA8)
C0 B - - 1 1 1 MNP (MAC=52-54-00-12-34-56, ProtocolType=0x806, VlanId=0)
C1 B - - 1 1 10 MNP (MAC=52-54-00-12-34-56, ProtocolType=0x800, VlanId=0)
C2 D - - 1 0 0 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/MAC(525400123456,0x1)/VenHw(9FB1A1F3-3B71-4324-B39A-745CBB015FFF)
C3 B - - 1 1 6 IPv4 (SrcIP=0.0.0.0)
C4 B - - 1 1 1 IPv4 (SrcIP=0.0.0.0)
C5 B - - 2 1 2 UDPv4 (SrcPort=68, DestPort=67)
C6 B - - 1 1 1 IPv4 (Not started)
C7 B - - 2 1 1 UDPv4 (Not started)
C8 B - - 1 1 10 MNP (MAC=52-54-00-12-34-56, ProtocolType=0x86DD, VlanId=0)
C9 D - - 1 0 0 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/MAC(525400123456,0x1)/VenHw(5BEDB5CC-D830-4EB2-8742-2D4CC9B54F2C)
CA B - - 1 1 5 IPv6(StationAddress=::, DestinationAddress=::)
CB B - - 1 1 1 IPv6(StationAddress=::, DestinationAddress=::)
CC B - - 2 1 2 UDPv6 (SrcPort=546, DestPort=0)
CD B - - 1 1 1 IPv6(Not started)
CE B - - 2 1 1 UDPv6 (Not started)
CF B - - 1 1 1 IPv4 (SrcIP=0.0.0.0)
D0 B - - 1 1 1 IPv6(StationAddress=::, DestinationAddress=::)
D1 D - - 1 1 0 PXE Controller
D2 B - - 1 1 1 IPv4 (Not started)
D3 B - - 2 1 1 UDPv4 (Not started)
D4 D - - 2 1 0 PXE Controller
D5 B - - 1 1 1 IPv4 (Not started)
D6 D - - 2 1 0 PXE Controller
D7 B - - 1 1 1 IPv4 (Not started)
D8 D - - 2 1 0 PXE Controller
D9 D - - 1 1 0 PXE Controller
DA D - - 1 1 0 PXE Controller
DB D - - 1 1 0 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/MAC(525400123456,0x1)/IPv4(0.0.0.0)
DC D - - 1 1 0 PXE Controller
DD D - - 1 1 0 PXE Controller
DE B - - 1 1 1 IPv6(Not started)
DF D - - 2 1 0 PXE Controller
Shell> - - 1 1 1 IPv6(Not started)
E1 D - - 2 1 0 PXE Controller
E2 D - - 1 1 0 PXE Controller
E3 D - - 1 1 0 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/MAC(525400123456,0x1)/IPv6(0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000)
E4 D - - 2 1 0 TCPv4 (Not started)
E5 B - - 1 1 1 IPv4 (Not started)
E6 D - - 2 1 0 TCPv6(Not started)
E7 B - - 1 1 1 IPv6(Not started)
E9 D - - 1 1 0 UEFI Http Boot Controller
EA D - - 1 0 0 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/MAC(525400123456,0x1)/IPv4(0.0.0.0)/Uri()
EB D - - 1 1 0 UEFI Http Boot Controller
EC D - - 1 1 0 IPv6(Not started)
ED D - - 1 0 0 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/MAC(525400123456,0x1)/IPv6(0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000)/Uri()
EE B - - 1 1 1 IPv6(Not started)
EF D - - 2 1 0 UDPv6 (Not started)
F0 B - - 1 1 1 IPv4 (Not started)
F1 D - - 2 1 0 UDPv4 (Not started)
I’m thinking that’s just not enough storage devices.
Hi Jed, thanks for your report. This documentation is no longer maintained on Discourse, so I’ve posted your issue over on our GitHub issues