Re: Soildrun Honeycomb LX2 boot issue

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 04:48:28PM +0100, Matthew Feeney wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have attempted to install NetBSD 10.1 onto a Soildrun Honeycomb LX2.
> 
> I receive no warnings/errors during install only to find when i reboot to
> the new installation i am dumped to an EFI Shell instead of booting NetBSD.

Hi Matthew, I don't know anything about the Honeycomb LX2 or its firmware.

The installer will only prepare a NetBSD bootloader in the default
location of the Efi System Partition, so if you are sharing that drive
with other OSes you need to manually tune things and set up boot option
variables. You should (but that depends on the EFI implementation) be able
to manually select the bootloader (EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi) and start
that.

If the drive is otherwise empty (or the installer removed everything else)
auto-booting should just work (AFAIK).

Martin