Running the Helios on AWS bare metal instance #27
Description
Hi folks,
I tried creating an AMI which worked on virtualised instances but not on bate metal(c6a.metal).
The debugging is particularly difficult due to no logs being available in serial console.
I also tried qemu and generic images with both ttya and vga types which also didn’t work.
As per AWS documentation, booting via only legacy BIOS is supported on bare metal instances.
All instances built on the AWS Nitro System support both UEFI and Legacy BIOS, except the following: bare metal instances
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/launch-instance-boot-mode.html
Since helios uses phbl(https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl) I was hoping it could boot on metal instances. Have you folks tried launching on metal instance before just in case?