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Re: UEFI boot NetBSD?
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 03:03:22AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Is it currently possible to boot newer versions of NetBSD in UEFI mode?
> -8 and -current should work, but the installer has not yet been updated
> to reflect it.
> > How would the boot/load code know where to find the root partition to boot?
> FreeBSD and NetBSD use different GUIDs for the root partition type.
> AFAICT the bootloader itself does not offer manual selection for
> multiple root partitions, but you could use boot.cfg statements or
> special kernels with hard wired root device to select between them.
> Martin
If I try to boot /usr/mdec/bootx64.efi or bootia32.efi, these files might be copied to EFI system partition, so I would not be at the NetBSD kernel yet.
So how would the load or boot code find the kernel?
I might not need the root partition hard-wired; I could boot (kernel) -a .
Tom
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