Re: How to BIOS-boot from NVMe device?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Yay - it boots again!

I re-ran ``gpt biosboot'' and ``installboot'' specifying the NetBSD
partition (index=2), and completely disconnected the hard drives.

It booted!  But I think it is still confused.

The BIOS no longer offers EFI as a boot option.  Yet, the boot menu
I get is the NetBSD flag with no menu options listed.  It simply
declares a default boot file and timeout.  Since the timeout does
not match what I specified in installboot, _and_ the default file
to boot is on device NAME=EFI-system I can only surmise that it did
a EFI-boot.  (The EFI partition is still marked ``bootme''.)

Would be nice to get my menu back and have it default to the NetBSD
system partition, but at least it boots!

Thanks!

PS I _detest_ x86 bootstrap crap!


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