Re: boot.cfg dev command not working

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

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025, Michael van Elst wrote:

> paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:
>
> > > > My boot.cfg file looks like this:
> > > > dev=NAME=NVME-sys:
> > > > If I just let it boot and take the default option 7, the ``dev'' is not
> > > > set and the boot fails since the default dev is NAME=NVME-efi which
> > > > doesn't have a /netbsd
> > > How old is that bootx64.efi ?
>
> > Pretty recent - Jan 31
>
> Can't reproduce this. The default 'dev' is the boot partition, not the
> ESP, and you don't even have to set dev or give boot a path to load the
> kernel.

My default is the efi wedge, since that is the one marked with the 
``bootme'' attribute.


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