Not adding anything here but, this is something users ask everynow and then on different forums.
It would be awesome if the wiki contained a guide on how to set-up a dualboot, Windows/NetBSD and Linux/NetBSD. Including seting up rEFInd would be the icing on the cake.
Happy new year.
My system wa built a year ago. I boot NetBSD from one HD.
I boot Windoze from another HD.
It also allows me to boot either of 2 CD/DVDs.
The 2 CDs come in handy when upgrading NetBSD.
I can choose which device to boot when UEFI comes up.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 6:19 PM Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> I boot my netbsd-current system in uefi mode from the second disk by selecting its .efi file; I lost my default rEFInd setup when I downgraded the first disk from W11 to W10 and haven’t tried to recover it yet, it also can be started by selecting its .efi file. I have never copied the system kernel on the efi partition; there are three systems on the second disk with their own efi partitions. This is on an HP envy 17 laptop, 5 years old.
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> On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 at 17:19, Tobias Nygren <tnn%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:05:08 +0000 (UTC)
>> Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> > Hi!
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>> > I re-installed Windows 10 on my machine, and it insisted on UEFI boot,
>> > which killed my previous dual-booting setup with GRUB and legacy boot.
>> >
>> > NetBSD is on the second NVMe drive, while the first one is all Windows.
>> >
>> > After installing Windows, I manually installed rEFInd into the EFI
>> > partition. For NetBSD, I copied bootx64.efi to /EFI/NetBSD (so as not to
>> > overwrite the existing /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi, which I assume is from
>> > Windows). I also copied a GENERIC NetBSD-9.2 kernel to /netbsd.gz on the
>> > EFI partition.
>> >
>> > After selecting NetBSD in rEFInd (which it auto-detects), I see the
>> > NetBSD/x86 EFI boot (x64) banner. It proceeds to load a kernel from
>> > "NAME=EFI system partition:netbsd.gz (howto 0x20000)".
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, after the initial loader line with the sizes, the boot
>> > seems to hang with no further output.
>> >
>> > Any ideas, hints or tips?
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>> I have a similar problem when I have a 4k sector NVMe drive installed.
>> I suspect in my case it is a Dell firmware bug but not sure.
>> It hangs for me when tearing down UEFI stuff before jumping to kernel.
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>> To rule out issues with the EFI system partition itself you could
>> install a /EFI/NetBSD/boot.cfg to instruct bootx64.efi to load the
>> kernel from hd1a:netbsd or whatever your FFS partition is named.
>>
>> -Tobias
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