Re: dual boot installation with UEFI

[Jeff <pacavegano%tutamail.com@localhost>]

Okay, thanks. We'll see what happens when I try again...
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Sep 25, 2026, 23:31 by mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost:

> pacavegano%tutamail.com@localhost (Jeff) writes:
>
> >I wish to install NetBSD into the unused space (or I can pre-format it, if that would help) on a drive which already has a UEFI partition and a partition on which Gentoo is installed, and I want to keep Gentoo intact. I cannot find any instructions or tutorials regarding installing on a disk that has another OS on it, and all of my attempts have failed when I get to the point of accepting the disk layout. It quickly fails with a complaint about not being able to access /dev/dk* (and I'm trying to install on nvme).
>
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> You should be able to just add the NetBSD partition(s) and tell sysinst
> to install the system into it.
>
> The more tricky part is then how to boot. If your system already has
> something like a boot selector, you could create an EFI/netbsd
> directory and copy over bootx64.efi (and maybe a boot.cfg) to it.
>