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List:       netbsd-users
Subject:    Re: Cannot boot, was: Re: Can't install NetBSD to ffs2 partition, no errors
From:       Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2022-10-06 21:57:29
Message-ID: 1665093471312.2038154862.1997957463 () gmail ! com
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On 06 October 2022 17:36:01 (+01:00), Martin Husemann wrote:

 > On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:04:42PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
 > > Bad news. The installer didn't ask me if and where I wanted to install
 > > the bootloader and now I can't boot into NetBSD.
 >
 > If you have multiple installations on your Efi System Partition you may
 > need to select the one to boot manually from your UEFI boot menu.
 >
 > Typical setup is one OS per disk, which makes it easier (e.g. I dual
 > boot one of my machines that way by pressing F11 early and then 
selecting
 > the NetBSD disk or the Windows disk).
 >
 > But most UEFI offer a way to select a specific file from the ESP,
 > just pick bootx64.efi for the NetBSD bootloader (sysinst should
 > have put it in the \EFI\BOOT directory of the ESP).
Indeed. On my laptop's two internal disks I have four EFI partitions 
altogether - one on the first and three on the second - which contain the 
boot .efi files for a number of systems (at one stage the second disk had 
Suse, RedHat and NetBSD). I can boot them by choosing the corresponding 
.efi file, which the system bios lets me do, or, even better, I can select 
to boot the efi file for rEFInd, which then brings me a nice graphics menu 
containing all the bootable operating systems - even these on a temporary 
attached USB disks. 

The EFI partition has nothing to do with /boot on NetBSD, no point to mount 
it at all, at least for me so far. 
  
 >
 > Martin
 >

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Chavdar Ivanov
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