[Info-vax] OpenVMS x86 and qemu/kvm - boot problems.

[Dennis Boone]

 > It crashed during booting. I got two error messages said unable determine
 > serial number in HWPB block and bug check message said that high IPL during
 > pagefault exception.  I think that I got wrong UEFI firmware from
 > /usr/share/qemu. Does anyone have good UEFI firmware?

I have 2022.11-6 of the ovmf package and qemu 7.2.on a Debian Sid box.

ozymandias 1643 # sha256sum /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd 
d996e65015d52ad21ec4014c4f6f80038dbfd63463106e39eb66b81282ab8dbf  /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd

-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2097152 mar  5 15:36 OVMF.fd

Make sure you're not trying to boot in secure mode.

I get the serial number message too, but it doesn't seem to prevent
booting and installation.

I can reliably induce a crash (high IPL, page fault) by trying to
mount the ISO image.  I'm also getting random crashes I haven't
diagnosed yet.  I.e. ymmv.

De