On Sat, 30 Aug 2025, Martin Husemann wrote:
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 10:45:30AM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:I'm not sure why people are surprised you're using a non-UEFI system, especially with NetBSD. Most of my hardware is older than 10 years old.I am not suprised by the older machines, but the lack of UEFI support. I do have a lot older machines, but I think (only looking at x86 ones) besides an original 486 none of the still working ones lacks UEFI. The machines just die young, in my experience. And UEFI has been mainstream for a long time now.
I remember Intel said PXE was going to EOL in the 1990's? I think it's finally EOL (or will be soon). The reason was customers wouldn't allow it (Bill & Dave, Michael, and possibly Larry). EFI kind of confuses me but I suppose that's a me thing. I still don't know why my server boots up with the installer logo (Welcome to the NetBSD installer) but it seems to work so I probably shouldn't poke at it too much. Especially since it takes several minutes to boot. -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd%twofifty.com@localhost BSEE + BSChem + BAEnglish + MSCS + $2.50 = coffee