[EFI] loader is unable to start the kernel in vmware

[diver]

This is hrev56385 x86_64 in VMware Workstation 16.

EFI loader displays Haiku splash screen and hangs with no icons lit.
Adding Serial port with output to a text file doesn't produce any output.

[Starcrasher]

A change to UEFI loader was revert in hrev56377. Was it better with a hrev56376?

[Maxis]

VMWare Worksatation Player 16.2.4 i can reproduce this bug when HDD in Hardware Device list set to IDE and CD/ROM is SATA with connected haiku iso image.

[diver]

Same version here. I tried attaching HDD to SATA and NVME but neither worked for me. Did you leave CDROM attached or are to SATA?

[Maxis]

Here is my settings that boot haiku

[Maxis]

Haiku boot even if i remove HDD from hardware device list.

[Maxis]

To boot in UEFI i edited config file and add firmware="efi" to it.

[Maxis]

I boot from ISO not from HDD.

[diver]

I finally managed to boot via EFI after I chose EFI VMware Virtual SATA CDROM from VMware Boot manager (accacceble via Esc key).

I wonder why it displayed splash screen at all when I was booting from HDD as it doesn't contain ESP partition with efi loader.

[waddlesplash]

So, the serial log indicates we get all the way to the call to ExitBootServices. But then nothing else happens.

I added a bit more tracing. It appears that ExitBootServices is called at least twice; and after the second call, we don't get any more debug output. I tried attaching a debugger to VMware's GDB stub, but I can't really tell what's going on. It looks like execution may be stopped on a HLT instruction, but where or in what code I can't tell (based on the addresses it looks like before kernel handoff, though.)