Re: dual boot installation with UEFI

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

Sep 26, 2026, 17:26 by rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost:

> On Sat, 26 Sep 2026, Jeff wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:32:39 +0200 (CEST)
>> From: Jeff <pacavegano%tutamail.com@localhost>
>> To: Netbsd Users <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
>> Subject: Re: dual boot installation with UEFI
>>
>> Okay, I just tried again, and failed the same way.  I will try to include as much detail about what I did as possible, so that hopefully you all can point out my mistakes!
>>
>
> sysinst(8) isn't really setup for this use-case (ie. multi-boot), but, there
> are workarounds.
>
> The first thing you should do is to make a backup of `EFI/boot' because sysinst
> *will* unconditionally overwrite any existing BOOT*.EFI files with NetBSD's
> own bootloaders:
>
> mv /some/path/EFI/Boot /some/path/EFI/Boot.bak
>
This is what the directory currently looks like:

~ # ls -lAR /efi/EFI
/efi/EFI:
total 4
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 15:04 gentoo

/efi/EFI/gentoo:
total 160
-rwx------ 1 root root 163840 Sep 23 15:04 grubx64.efi

There's nothing named boot*, so will any of what is there need to be moved?

Jeff