id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 20262 FreeBSD host, EFI guests, 6.1.18: F12 no longer presents the boot manager Graham Perrin "With 5.2.44, if I recall correctly: * F12 always successfully presented the boot manager. With recent https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=567950 for the ports collection for FreeBSD: * 6.⋯ became available (nothing earlier than 6.1.18 was in the collection) * end of life 5.2.44 became legacy. With 6.1.18, it seems: * boot management is impossible for guests that use EFI. The VirtualBox splash screen appears for no longer than a split-second (with and without keying F12), then there's the shell. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234878#c235 (comment 235) described the symptom but was – in the context of bug 234878 (emulators/virtualbox-ose: Update to 6.1) – ''not'' a show-stopper. " defect closed EFI VirtualBox 6.1.18 obsolete F12, boot, boot manager all other