from MLH: > Well, not so great. Once the bios detects an EFI boot drive on the > system, it attempts to load that, regardless of any other non-EFI > boot drive you specify. So to boot from the temp non-EFI boot drive, > the EFI drives have to be disconnected until the NetBSD boot loader > has started and then I apply power to the EFI drives to bring them > up and then boot NetBSD. > Somewhere in that scenario, to boot from the non-EFI drive, NetBSD > started requiring to run /var/run/lvm and it wouldn't run. The > only way I could boot from that drive was to 'update' the os from > cd again, so something apparently got hosed. No idea what. > Needless to say, the EFI drives didn't boot. Not sure why yet. > "Booting Operating System" showed then the cursor moved down, > possibly attempting to display something, then kept cycling back > and from bwtween those two.
My systems have UEFI, but I can boot USB sticks in non-EFI mode. I can boot the System Rescue CD either way (UEFI or non-UEFI), written to USB stick. Maybe it depends on the motherboard? Tom