Windows 11 UEFI Shell

[BigDaddyDingDong]

I've been trying to get my VM to install for a week now and every time I run into issues. This is what I get when I load the official windows ISO and virtIO ver 0.1.240-1. I'm leaving almost all of the settings default except:

Machine: Q35-7.1

Bios: does not matter if it's OVMF TPM or OVMF

 

Please help 🙏

[BigDaddyDingDong]

For those of you struggling with this issue, I plan on making a video tutorial on how to fix this.

[ich777]

9 hours ago, BigDaddyDingDong said:

OVMF TPM

For Windows 11 you have to use OVMF TPM.

 

Try to type in exit ti restart the boot process.

of course, you have to press any key to start the setup.

[tophat17]

same issue here. 

[therm]

I'm getting the same result when installing W7, W10, Ubuntu desktop 23.10, Ubuntu server 23.10. I've attempted to change the boot orders in Unraid, patched to the latest release, specified the VHD storage location, Change boot order in the UEFI/shell. Change from OVMP to Seabios etc. etc.

 

On other Server OS like WS2019, ESXi and KVM on Ubuntu which I've been able to use basic configs and get a VM running in less than 2 mins. Unraid is really really frustrating. I feel like I've missed something really basic.

I've followed numerous YT videos like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iR9Cn0t22E copied the wizard/setup exactly. Always boots to UEFI, and have NEVER actually booted from the virtual CDROM under any configuration.

 

I'm really hoping one of y'all found the right button to click and can come back to this forum post in 2023 and SAVE THE DAY!

Th

Unraid Ubuntu config file.odt Unraid Ubuntu log file.odt

[SpaceInvaderOne]

Hi,

looking in your xml for the vm i see that your cdrom is set as the 2nd boot device

 

    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/mnt/user/isos/ubuntu-23.10.1-desktop-amd64.iso'/>
      <target dev='hda' bus='sata'/>
      <readonly/>
      <boot order='2'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>

This should be the first device to install your OS.

Goto the template and set the cd to boot order 1    and   vdisk to boot order 2. Save the template and start it will boot from the cd and you can install

[therm]

<disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/>
      <source file='/mnt/user/domains/Box/vdisk1.img' index='2'/>
      <backingStore/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/>
      <serial>vdisk1</serial>
      <boot order='2'/>
      <alias name='virtio-disk2'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/mnt/user/isos/ubuntu-23.10.1-desktop-amd64.iso' index='1'/>
      <backingStore/>
      <target dev='hda' bus='sata'/>
      <readonly/>
      <boot order='1'/>
      <alias name='sata0-0-0'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>

 

VNC still boots to blinky shell. Thanks for trying to help.

[SimonF]

If you type exit it should go into the bios screen. Goto to boot manager do you see the CDROM?