Paul Goyette <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Paul Goyette wrote: > >> Would be nice to get my menu back and have it default to the NetBSD >> system partition, but at least it boots! > > I got my menu back. Just had to put it at /efi/boot.cfg (ie, at the > root of the EFI partition). > > > +--------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+ > | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | > | (Retired) | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | [email protected] | > | Software Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | [email protected] | > | & Network Engineer | | [email protected] | > +--------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+
This is a clear indication of a UEFI boot. There is confusion in the docs about where the boot.cfg file should be located. I have also found that the desired behavior works if it is in the root of the EFI filesystem. If anyone wants to play with UEFI booting and has access to a recent Xen DOM0 system you can install the pkgsrc/sysutils/ovmf package and point a Xen HVM guest at that for its bios and get a more or less working UEFI setup without physical hardware (you will have to compile a custom kernel without PVM or PVHVM support). I posted a note on port-xen a bit ago about what works and what had trouble. You can probably do the same thing with qemu and/or nvmm but I have not messed with those. -- Brad Spencer - [email protected] - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
