Why do you need UEFI? It does not add to security "a lot" but was designed to block booting software like a "hypervisor". I used my Dell notebooks to test our hypervisor identification software (HyperCatcher if you are interested) which is bootable image. However, I was unable to boot it until I disabled UEFI. As I understand it, it will block anything from booting excepting original OS. Your Xen and our HyperCatcher are outsiders for UEFI.
Mikhail Utin
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From: CentOS <centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of John Naggets <hostingnuggets@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 17:23
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Subject: Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub
Hi,
I installed CentOS 7.4 on a modern Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 server
which uses UEFI. So far so good CentOS 7.4 works fine so then I went
on to install the Xen hypervisor by following the instructions from
the wiki (https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart).
HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart - CentOS Wiki<https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart>
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Scope. This guide will help you get from a baseline CentOS/x86_64 install to running the complete Xen-4 stack in just under 10 minutes, this includes getting your ...
Unfortunately when I reboot after having installed the xen package the
system does not boot into "CentOS Linux, with Xen hypervisor" from the
grub menu prompt. I get the following error:
Loading Xen 4.6.6-8.el7 ...
error: can't find command `multiboot'.
Loading Linux 4.9.75-29.el7.x86_64 ...
error: can't find command `module'.
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: can't find command `module'.
Press any key to continue...
The problem which I encounter here is exactly the same issue as
described for Fedora in the RedHat bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286317 with the exception
With 4.5.2 Xen update, the system no longer boot - Red Hat<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286317>
bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1286317. With 4.5.2 Xen update, the system no longer boot. Last modified: 2017-08-08 19:49:12 EDT
that for me it's CentOS 7.4 and that the workarounds as described in
that bug do not work.
Does anyone know how I can make my CentOS boot with the Xen hypervisor
using UEFI?
Thank you very much for your help.
Best regards,
John
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