On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Robert Nestor wrote:
When I was a young man doing IT support I was always frustrated to find a user who needed help but had sprinkled his scripts with all sorts of random commands he'd found someplace. Now that I'm an old man I find myself doing that very same thing, so I understand and appreciate your confusion and frustration on my screwed up approach. :-)
:) From one old man to another, I understand completely! :)
However, I faithfully implemented your advice and lo-and-behold I almost have a booting system! It does come up with the NetBSD boot menu and then fails because it can't find the NetBSD kernel file on hd0a. Of course, that's the EFI/FAT16 partition, so I entered "boot hd0b:netbsd" at the prompt and I'm up and running!
Kewl!
I'm thinking there must be some configuration file I can play with that modifies this behavior, but for now I’m one happy camper!
/boot.cfg is usually where the boot menu is located, probably on the FAT16 partition. Change the boot commands appropriately...
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