Re: boot.cfg dev command not working

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

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025, Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025, RVP wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 22 Mar 2025, Paul Goyette wrote:
> >
> > > My machine doesn't work this way.  It fails to boot if I mark the
> > > NetBSD partition; instead it proceeds to the next bootable device.
> > > The bootme flag seems to be acting as "this is where bootx64.efi is
> > > found".
> >
> > Can you see if there are bogus EFI boot entries that might be interfering,
> > and then delete all those which don't correspond to the NetBSD EFI ESP?
> > -HEAD now has an efi(8) utility which can do it:
> >
> > efi -B -b NNNN
>
> What do I use for NNNN ?
>
> Please also note that this thread has completely diverged from what I
> started.  The problem I'm really interested in solving is documented
> in port-and64/59207

Here's my current info - what would you want me to try?  And if the
wrong thing gets deleted, how do I recover?

# efi -v
Boot0004* UEFI OS       HD(1,GPT,143a1b62-7eee-4032-adf8-dfe20a383bdb,0x800,0x6400000)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)..BO
Boot0005* UEFI OS       HD(1,GPT,adb5c6c6-f9fa-45b7-a332-5f52a4e7c0a5,0x800,0x19000)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)..BO
Boot0006* UEFI:CD/DVD Drive     BBS(Reserved(0x81),0x0000,)
Boot0007* UEFI:Removable Device BBS(Reserved(0x82),0x0000,)
Boot0008* UEFI:Network Device   BBS(Reserved(0x83),0x0000,)
BootCurrent: 0004
BootFromUSB  ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9     1 0x7<nvmem,BSAcc,RTAcc>
BootOptionSupport:      0x3<Key,App,Count=0>
BootOrder: 0004,0005,0006,0007,0008
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