January 24, 20224 yr Hello everybody! I've been trying to get my Kali Linux installation running as a VM in Unraid. I have installed a basic installation on a NVME which boots on startup without any problems.(Without Unraid) But every time I try setting up a VM I get stuck with different issues depending on my settings. First setup: With these setting I get stuck here: And if I try the SeaBIOS I get stuck here: What am I doing wrong? I appreciate every help I can get. Thanks in advance peeps
January 24, 20224 yr Solution First settings are correct: q35+ovmf (you have fs0 on hd). You need to create a custom entry in ovmf. Start the vm and press esc to boot into the ovmf bios settings, create a new entry for boot, point it to the efi file, adjust boot order, save and reboot. Edited January 24, 20224 yr by ghost82
January 24, 20224 yr Author Thank you very much! I will try that and report back. Sorry for the noob question but what do you mean by "you have fs0 on hd"?
January 24, 20224 yr 18 minutes ago, D4zz4 said: what do you mean by "you have fs0 on hd"? In the screenshot you posted you have the map of your drives and you see FS0, that is the partition which most probably contains the EFI folder with the .efi payload.
January 25, 20224 yr Author Oh man, you are a lifesaver! After a few tries, it worked. I couldn't enter the bios via the VNC connection because I wasn't fast enough with the ESC button. So I had to plug in my keyboard directly into the server to get into the boot menu. From there I did as you said - created a new boot entry and chose the grub.efi file - enter a name for the new boot option (otherwise it wouldn't save) and moved the new option to the first position in the boot order. Thank you for helping me out. If I somehow can buy you a coffee, just pm me!
January 25, 20224 yr 13 minutes ago, D4zz4 said: I couldn't enter the bios via the VNC connection because I wasn't fast enough with the ESC button. Just for info, when you are in the uefi shell, if you type 'exit' it should reboot the vm without closing the vnc connection, so you don't lose time for opening a new vnc window. 14 minutes ago, D4zz4 said: From there I did as you said - created a new boot entry and chose the grub.efi file - enter a name for the new boot option (otherwise it wouldn't save) and moved the new option to the first position in the boot order. Yes, that was exactly what I wanted to write, sorry for not giving a more detailed description. Not sure why the entry is not automatically detected.
January 25, 20224 yr Author Maybe allow me to ask another question regarding this topic. After your help, I thought I set up a new installation with encryption and lvm. After setting up the partitions and installing the system, I went into the boot menu like before, but this time the .efi file did not show up. It did not show any file system at all. I only encrypted the root and the swap partitions, not the efi nor the boot partition. What did I do wrong?
January 25, 20224 yr I have zero experience with encryption/lvm, I don't think the issue is related to this; did you create (manually or automatically) the efi partition and installed grub on it?
January 25, 20224 yr Author I created them manually because efi and boot partition are too small when created automatically. If the old kernels are not deleted after an update, it can cause some problems I've heard. And resizing later can be difficult. I can retry the installation and see if it works with automated partitioning... I will report back
January 26, 20224 yr Author 23 hours ago, ghost82 said: I have zero experience with encryption/lvm, I don't think the issue is related to this; did you create (manually or automatically) the efi partition and installed grub on it? I tried it again with automated partitioning - same issue. No file system is showing up. Now I tried a normal installation again - worked perfectly fine*
January 27, 20224 yr This may help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/729673/ubuntu-full-disk-encryption-with-encrypted-boot/801394#801394 It's for ubuntu, but it can be adapted for kali. Witch error you get? Did you add GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y?
January 27, 20224 yr Author 12 minutes ago, ghost82 said: This may help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/729673/ubuntu-full-disk-encryption-with-encrypted-boot/801394#801394 It's for ubuntu, but it can be adapted for kali. Witch error you get? Did you add GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y? Thank you for the link. I haven't tried every single one of the suggested steps in the process, but I added the GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y and updated GRUB. No success so far. As for your question, I didn't get any error. It shows the same shell on startup and if I go into the BIOS and try to set up the boot-option with the efi-file it shows a blank screen after selecting the device: Again, when I boot into this system without unraid it works fine.
January 27, 20224 yr 44 minutes ago, D4zz4 said: when I boot into this system without unraid it works fine This helps, so we know that the setup is correct. I then suspect is an ovmf bios issue: I don't know what version of ovmf unraid includes, you can try the attached ones, save them somewhere and point the paths in the xml of the vm of OVMF_VARS.fd and OVMF_CODE.fd to these new files. OVMF_commit-6612ff8-24-12-2021.zip
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