Re: Booting NetBSD from GPT/EFI

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

jaapb%kerguelen.org@localhost (Jaap Boender) writes:

>Is this at all possible? I understand the bootloader has to go in the 
>existing EFI partition; can I overwrite that without bothering Windows? 

EFI allows multiple bootloaders. This isn't the problem.

>Does the order of partitions matter (currently the NetBSD bits are 
>indexes 7 and 8)? Should I rather use Grub? Are there tutorials 
>available?

For a dual boot from a GPT disk, the only solution currently is
to use grub as an EFI bootloader.

The alternative is to reformat everything as a 'legacy' MBR disk.

While there is a 'gptmbr.bin' bootloader for NetBSD that
requires BIOS boot but then accesses a GPT instead of the MBR
partitions, I doubt that such a disk is supported by Windows.


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