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Re: GSoC 2025 / Igor Svilenkov Bozic (Introduction)



Hi Martin,

Thanks for the feedback. That sounds good for scope expansion, kind of like an automated rEFInd-like functionality. I'll explore in which ways this may be achieved, then get back to you

Best,
Igor Svilenkov Bozic

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 07:04, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 06:22:16PM +0100, Igor Svilenkov wrote:
> The goal is to implement proper boot entries, making it nicer to see boot
> menu entries such as ?NetBSD 10.0? instead of the generic
> ?UEFI OS?.

Hi Igor, your proposal sounds good so far.

How about adding a close related but different additional goal as a possible
stretch goal (in case you get everything done quick enough)?

The proper setup of (U)EFI boot options will make it possible to
enhance sysinst to allow automatic installation of NetBSD side by side
on the same disk with other already installed OSes, relying on the
(U)EFI boot selector to pick a system to boot. Strictly speaking this
is not part of the original project, but it is a simple extensions and
will be easy once you are comfortable with the sysinst internals
required for the boot option setup.

Martin


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