Re: GPT/UEFI booting

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Robert Nestor wrote:

> When I was a young man doing IT support I was always frustrated to
> find a user who needed help but had sprinkled his scripts with all
> sorts of random commands he'd found someplace.  Now that I'm an old
> man I find myself doing that very same thing, so I understand and
> appreciate your confusion and frustration on my screwed up approach.
> :-)

:)  From one old man to another, I understand completely!  :)

> However, I faithfully implemented your advice and lo-and-behold I
> almost have a booting system!  It does come up with the NetBSD boot
> menu and then fails because it can't find the NetBSD kernel file on
> hd0a.  Of course, that's the EFI/FAT16 partition, so I entered "boot
> hd0b:netbsd" at the prompt and I'm up and running!

Kewl!

> I'm thinking there must be some configuration file I can play with
> that modifies this behavior, but for now I’m one happy camper!

/boot.cfg is usually where the boot menu is located, probably on the 
FAT16 partition.  Change the boot commands appropriately...


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