I recently purchased a new laptop and the vendor provided windows installation/recovery insists on installing a EFI/GPT set up, it simply refuses to install on MBR at all even though a stock OEM Win 8 will. After some adventures and holing a few perfectly good shoes I have been able to get Win 8 and NetBSD to coexist but at the moment I need to use a CD to get the boot loader and then manually set my dev to the NetBSD partition and then boot from the hard disk - clunky but it works. I am looking to install linux (which I was going to do anyway) and then use grub to boot NetBSD, slightly less clunky and should work.
I have been looking at a more elegant way of managing the boot process and found rEFInd which is a replacement for the windows boot manager, I should be able to invoke grub from this and get multiboot happening but I am looking for a more direct way, rEFInd ideally wants an EFI bootloader it can load and execute... hence the reason for this email, is anyone working on an EFI bootloader for NetBSD? I would love to get rid of the grub hoops if I can. -- Brett Lymn
