Salil Wadnerkar <bsdprg%disroot.org@localhost> writes: > Mayuresh wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 09:25:30AM +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote: >>> I was installing on amd64 and the installer let me choose either MBR or GPT, >> I notice a separate image marked "bios" >> >> NetBSD-10.0_BETA-amd64-bios-install.img.gz >> NetBSD-10.0_BETA-amd64-install.img.gz >> >> So wonder, which installer you tried that gave you these two options. I >> got an impression that these two are just different installers - 1 UEFI >> and 1 BIOS. > UEFI installer is a hybrid installer - works for both UEFI and BIOS: > http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_beta_available Someone who actually knows should comment, but I would expect that both installers can do the same things once booted. I would expect that the one with bios in the name has an MBR partition and MBR boot in the img, to be bootable on machines that support that, and that the other is GPT with EFI boot, to be bootable on machines that support that. I would expect most machines to be able to boot either, except for old machines are mbr only and maybe some new ones are EFI only. And on some machines, it wouldn't surprise me if some are buggier with one method or the other.
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