Re: Regarding the boot process.

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

> Please ignore my previous reply, which is shown above. For some reason
> the usb started to boot again. The next thing I will try is to connect
> the NetBSD HDD into the DVD sata slot and try to boot it from there,
> with the bootme flag (with the biosboot flag also set). Let's see what
> happens.

I suggest you try booting using a EFI label (after labelling your
NetBSD partitions). Try:

1. Remove the bootme attribute.

2. Label the NetBSD boot/root partition using `gpt label -l NetBSD_9.2 ...'

3. In esp:/EFI/NetBSD/boot.cfg, add:
rndseed=/var/db/entropy-file
menu=Boot normally:boot NAME=NetBSD_9.2:
...rest of stuff...

4. Edit /etc/fstab, and use the same labels:
NAME=NetBSD_9.2         /               ffs     rw,log,noatime  1 1
NAME=NetBSD_swap        none            swap    sw,dp
...rest...

I have 3 partitions for NetBSD with labels: NetBSD_EFI, NetBSD_9.2 and
NetBSD_swap. None have the bootme attr. set.

$ gpart show -l ada0
=>       34  976773101  ada0  GPT  (466G)
         34       2014        - free -  (1.0M)
       2048     614400     1  EFI  (300M)
     616448    1228800     2  Basic data partition  (600M)
    1845248     262144     3  Microsoft reserved partition  (128M)
    2107392       8192     4  FreeBSD_EFI  (4.0M)
    2115584  104857600     7  FreeBSD_13.0  (50G)
  106973184    8390656     8  FreeBSD_swap  (4.0G)
  115363840      16384     9  NetBSD_EFI  (8.0M)
  115380224   41943040    10  NetBSD_9.2  (20G)
  157323264   10485760    11  NetBSD_swap  (5.0G)
  167809024   20971520    12  Linux filesystem  (10G)
  188780544      16384    13  OpenBSD_EFI  (8.0M)
  188796928   62914560    14  OpenBSD_6.8  (30G)
  251711488  104857600    15  NetBSD_test  (50G)
  356569088   19470336        - free -  (9.3G)
  376039424    8388608     5  Ubuntu_swap  (4.0G)
  384428032  592343040     6  Ubuntu_19.04  (282G)
  976771072       2063        - free -  (1.0M)

$

-RVP