Thomas Mueller wrote: > from MLH: > > > 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.
So I built a *live-wd0root.img, installed that on a usb stick and apparently my motherboard doesn't allow booting from usb stick. So I decided to make a rescue or live cd iso (so I could boot from cd and transfer to the temp boot drive) and neither are build.sh options (the iso). And since floppy boot has been removed, the old method: mkisofs -o output.iso -b i386/installation/floppy/boot-big.fs \ -c boot.catalog -l -J -R -allow-leading-dots /cdsources as described in https://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html#cdrecord no longer works. It appears that the new method uses cdboot, but I can't determine exactly how to make and use that. Would be nice if https://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html was updated to reflect how to build bootable cds now.