u/Sorry_Situation6676

Yes, I've read all.

Got bhyve setup fine and got a FreeBSD15 VM running just fine.

The problem I'm having thought is trying to get a Linux VM running.

I've tried using both the Linux template (UEFI) and one using grub. The closest I've got is using a template using grub.

I've tried several Linux distros (Arch, Debian and Alpine) all with the same results.

The install works fine (or seems to), however when the installer is finished and says to reboot, they all reboot and I just get a prompt (grub >) not rebooting to a logim screen.

Here's an example of the template:

loader="grub"
cpu=1
memory=512M
network0_type="virtio-net"
network0_switch="public"
disk0_type="virtio-blk"
disk0_name="disk0.img"
grub_run_partition="1"
grub_run_dir="/boot/grub"

Been trying to install FreeBSD for the better part of two days now and it's just been one thing after another. I've been a Linux user (Arch) for almost 9 years, so I'm not a nob at computers and non-Windows.

First problem was getting the mouse to work under X11. Changed my video card from Nvidia to AMD and another tweak and that seems to have fixed the mouse problem, though I'm not sure how much the AMD card actually helped. Just that the Nvidia drivers were making me crazy when X11 (startx). The Nvidia card works just fine with Arch.

Next was getting to auto mount USB drives and I seem to have that fixed now.

My current problem is no sound even though /dev/sndstat and dmesg shows the sound (HDMI from the AMD GPU card) and the various mixer apps all show everything as ok, still no joy in mudville.

Problem with trying to chase things down through the docs and youtube and other boards as it appears there has been a change with 15, such as no longer needing an xorg.conf.

Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions ?

Thanks