Hello, On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 11:21:22 -0800 Johnathan Cobden-Nolan <jcobdenno...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have installed OpenBSD on hd0l: in my case it is for multi-booting, > but I imagine there are other use cases where boot and/or root are > installed on partitions other than 'a'. > > This is a UEFI system so I've installed the efi bootloader which I am > able to execute. The bootloader first complains that there is no > hd0a:/etc/boot.conf. This is expected, since my install is at hd0l. > Since there is no boot.conf being read, it doesn't know where to try > booting: I am only able to boot the OS by typing "boot hd0l:/bsd".
If you just want to avoid the typing, you can put set device hd0l on /etc/boot.conf in 'a' parition. > This is not the end of the world, but it feels like it should be possible > to have a boot.conf somewhere other than the 'a' partition. Is it? Is > it possible to have a conf file in the EFI partition alongside the > bootloader itself? > > Thanks, > Johnathan >
