efibootmgr not working on xen-unstable booted on uefi system

efibootmgr not working on xen-unstable booted on uefi system

[Fantu]

I have installed dom0 Wheezy 64 bit on Dell PowerEdge T310 with kernel from
package and xen-unstable. System is in Uefi mode and booted with
grub-efi-amd64.
Booting without xen efibootmgr works, while with xen not, efivars kernel
module is loaded but show this message:
efibootmgr 
Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI
variables.
Try 'modprobe efivars' as root.
If you need some additional info please notify me, thanks for any reply.

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Re: efibootmgr not working on xen-unstable booted on uefi system

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 29.05.12 at 13:39, Fantu <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> wrote:
> I have installed dom0 Wheezy 64 bit on Dell PowerEdge T310 with kernel from
> package and xen-unstable. System is in Uefi mode and booted with
> grub-efi-amd64.

In -unstable, you shouldn't use any boot manager (other than
EFI's build in one) to boot Xen - neither GrUB or elilo are suitable,
as for making use of EFI runtime services you need to boot
xen.efi instead of xen.gz.

> Booting without xen efibootmgr works, while with xen not, efivars kernel
> module is loaded but show this message:
> efibootmgr 
> Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI
> variables.
> Try 'modprobe efivars' as root.

Presumably the module loads nevertheless, but without the
necessary underlying infrastructure it won't be able to do any
runtime calls, and hence wouldn't set up anything under /sys or
/proc.

Jan

Re: efibootmgr not working on xen-unstable booted on uefi system

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 29.05.12 at 15:09, Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> wrote:
> Thanks for reply, I don't have xen.efi in my test build, full xen build 
> log on attachment.
> I see this on log:
> EFI support disabled
> But I not undestand why and where set it.

This is dependent on your tool chain - binutils 2.22 (older versions
only if properly patched) and gcc 4.5.x (4.6.x recommended, as
4.5.x was never tested afaict) are the minimum required to make
that message go away. (You could have looked at the build logic
that produces that message to see what the requirements are.)

Jan

PS: Please don't drop xen-devel from Cc on conversations like
this.

Re: efibootmgr not working on xen-unstable booted on uefi system

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 29.05.12 at 15:36, Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> wrote:
> Il 29/05/2012 15:21, Jan Beulich ha scritto:
>> PS: Please don't drop xen-devel from Cc on conversations like
>> this.

You dropped xen-devel again.

> Thanks for reply, I check binutils and gcc, are installed and right 
> version seems:
>...
> 2.22-6                                 GNU assembler, linker and binary 

And it also is configured properly (i.e. lists i386pep as supported
emulation)? If building xen.efi doesn't work, the first thing to look
at is (in the Xen build tree) xen/arch/x86/efi/disabled, which
stores any error encountered while checking for the necessary
features in compiler in linker).

Jan

Re: efibootmgr not working on xen-unstable booted on uefi system

[Fabio Fantoni]

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Il 29/05/2012 16:00, Jan Beulich ha scritto:
>>>> On 29.05.12 at 15:36, Fabio Fantoni<fantonifabio@tiscali.it>  wrote:
>> Il 29/05/2012 15:21, Jan Beulich ha scritto:
>>> PS: Please don't drop xen-devel from Cc on conversations like
>>> this.
> You dropped xen-devel again.
>
>> Thanks for reply, I check binutils and gcc, are installed and right
>> version seems:
>> ...
>> 2.22-6                                 GNU assembler, linker and binary
>
> And it also is configured properly (i.e. lists i386pep as supported
> emulation)? If building xen.efi doesn't work, the first thing to look
> at is (in the Xen build tree) xen/arch/x86/efi/disabled, which
> stores any error encountered while checking for the necessary
> features in compiler in linker).
>
> Jan
>
>
>
> -----
> Nessun virus nel messaggio.
> Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com
> Versione: 2012.0.1913 / Database dei virus: 2425/5030 -  Data di rilascio: 29/05/2012
>
>
>
The content of xen/arch/x86/efi/disabled is:
ld: unrecognised emulation mode: i386pep
Supported emulations: elf_x86_64 elf32_x86_64 elf_i386 i386linux 
elf_l1om elf_k1om
How can I do for fix this?



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Re: efibootmgr not working on xen-unstable booted on uefi system

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 30.05.12 at 10:03, Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> wrote:
> The content of xen/arch/x86/efi/disabled is:
> ld: unrecognised emulation mode: i386pep
> Supported emulations: elf_x86_64 elf32_x86_64 elf_i386 i386linux 
> elf_l1om elf_k1om
> How can I do for fix this?

If your distor doesn't offer a suitably configured binutils package,
you'll have to build one yourself, I'm afraid.

Jan

Re: efibootmgr not working on xen-unstable booted on uefi system

[Fabio Fantoni]

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Il 30/05/2012 10:44, Jan Beulich ha scritto:
>>>> On 30.05.12 at 10:03, Fabio Fantoni<fantonifabio@tiscali.it>  wrote:
>> The content of xen/arch/x86/efi/disabled is:
>> ld: unrecognised emulation mode: i386pep
>> Supported emulations: elf_x86_64 elf32_x86_64 elf_i386 i386linux
>> elf_l1om elf_k1om
>> How can I do for fix this?
> If your distor doesn't offer a suitably configured binutils package,
> you'll have to build one yourself, I'm afraid.
>
> Jan
>
>
>
> -----
> Nessun virus nel messaggio.
> Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com
> Versione: 2012.0.1913 / Database dei virus: 2425/5032 -  Data di rilascio: 29/05/2012
>
>
>
Currently I'm testing xen-unstable on Debian Wheezy, I installed 
binutils-mingw-w64 package that provide binutils with i386pep emulation, 
I tried to rebuild but I had same error on xen/arch/x86/efi/disabled.
The ld binary provided with this package has a different name, what can 
I do to make xen use it instead of the default one? (/usr/bin/ld)
I loocked for $(LD) definition used in makefile but I didn't found it.
Thanks for any reply.


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Re: efibootmgr not working on xen-unstable booted on uefi system

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 31.05.12 at 11:41, Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> wrote:
> Il 30/05/2012 10:44, Jan Beulich ha scritto:
>>>>> On 30.05.12 at 10:03, Fabio Fantoni<fantonifabio@tiscali.it>  wrote:
>>> The content of xen/arch/x86/efi/disabled is:
>>> ld: unrecognised emulation mode: i386pep
>>> Supported emulations: elf_x86_64 elf32_x86_64 elf_i386 i386linux
>>> elf_l1om elf_k1om
>>> How can I do for fix this?
>> If your distor doesn't offer a suitably configured binutils package,
>> you'll have to build one yourself, I'm afraid.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> Nessun virus nel messaggio.
>> Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com 
>> Versione: 2012.0.1913 / Database dei virus: 2425/5032 -  Data di rilascio: 
> 29/05/2012
>>
>>
>>
> Currently I'm testing xen-unstable on Debian Wheezy, I installed 
> binutils-mingw-w64 package that provide binutils with i386pep emulation, 
> I tried to rebuild but I had same error on xen/arch/x86/efi/disabled.
> The ld binary provided with this package has a different name, what can 
> I do to make xen use it instead of the default one? (/usr/bin/ld)
> I loocked for $(LD) definition used in makefile but I didn't found it.
> Thanks for any reply.

Setting LD can be done on the make command line (you shouldn't
modify any sources for this). I don't think, however, that using a
mingw targeting binary will work, as the *same* ld will be used to
link the normal ELF executable (ending up as xen.gz). You should
use a Linux linker (i.e. defaulting to ELF) that *also* supports
i386pep. (Building binutils is, btw, a pretty simple process, so I
don't see why you're not just doing that - all customization you
need is adding "--enable-targets=x86_64-pep" to the configure
script invocation command line.)

Jan