NetBSD on a NUC

[Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost>]

A few years ago I was given an Intel NUC 
running Windows 10, and I used it for quite 
awhile since it allowed me to enjoy Adobe 
Acrobat and Epson's Scan Utility. I was very 
familiar with both of those products.

Earlier this year the NUC went belly up 
complaining that it could not find bootable 
media. I believed the unit's bios had been 
rendered unusable by many (years of 'em) 
instances of Windows Update, and the thing 
collected dust until I decided it would be 
marvelous to run NetBSD on it.

Delightfully enough, a CD created from 
NetBSD-9.99.88-amd64.iso booted the NUC, but 
when sysinst began to run I was informed that 
no hard disks could be found on which to do the 
install.

After awhile dawn broke over the erroneous (as 
I now believe) thinking that led me initially 
to suspect the Win10 bios, and it now seems a 
more likely scenario that the NUC's SSHD had, 
as we say, expired.

An online search for the NUC's symptoms 
suggested I try to set the boot order in it to 
its boot drive, to see if it might be detected, 
but I was unable to wrestle the Intel Setup 
screen(s) into such an attempt.

My question: other than replacing the NUC's 
drive, are there useful directions in which I 
might point my efforts?

Thank you.


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"No matter how big the problem is, you can always run away from it."

                        Dom Irrera