Re: uefi boot?

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 02:54:59PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> In the old days, on i386/amd64, one used to run disklabel, installboot
> and fdisk to make a disk bootable. What is the method in post-disklabel
> 3T disk days?
> 
> Should
> 
> # gpt show wd0
>        start        size  index  contents
>            0           1         PMBR
>            1           1         Pri GPT header
>            2          32         Pri GPT table
>           34          30         Unused
>           64    14680192      1  GPT part - NetBSD RAIDFrame component
>     14680256    33554432      2  GPT part - NetBSD swap
>     48234688   262144128      3  GPT part - NetBSD RAIDFrame component
>    310378816   262144128      4  GPT part - NetBSD RAIDFrame component
>    572522944   209715328      5  GPT part - NetBSD RAIDFrame component
>    782238272  2148038863      6  GPT part - NetBSD RAIDFrame component
>   2930277135          49         Unused
>   2930277184  2930255951      7  GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2
>   5860533135          32         Sec GPT table
>   5860533167           1         Sec GPT header
> # gpt biosboot -i 1 wd0
> /dev/rwd0d: Partition 1 marked as bootable
> 
> be enough? (with /usr/mdec/boot in /)
> 
> I updated the BIOS just in case, and get "Missing OS".
> 
> I suppose I'm asking "What does gptmbr.bin do?" (vs bootxx_ffsv2 etc)

gptmbr.bin is just MBR code.  You also need to put bootxx code in the
partition at index 1 with installboot.

	Jonathan Kollasch