> I am using grub2 to manage the boot. The way the system installer works
> on the laptop I had to install windows first because the installer would
> error if the partitioning was not exactly what it wanted, then shrink
> the windows partition, installed fedora which brought along grunb 2 then
> finally installed netbsd. This is the stanza from the grub.cfg I use
> for NetBSD:
menuentry "NetBSD" {
insmod part_gpt
set root=(hd0,gpt8)
knetbsd /netbsd
}
> I guess you can see from this I am also using GPT and I use wedges for
> the NetBSD partitioning.
> > I succeeded booting FreeBSD by UEFI, but NetBSD attempt hung early (8.99.46
> > amd64).
> Odd - I am on 8.99.26 at the moment but my configuration has been
> booting fine since around April 2014 when I bought the laptop.
> Brett Lymn
> Sent from my NetBSD device.
This menuentry "NetBSD" part looks like something that would work in BIOS mode.
Do you also use it for UEFI?
I don't use the line "insmod part_gpt", and Super Grub2 Disk recognizes set
root=(hd1,gpt18) anyway. I use the command line rather than menuentry.
There is sysutils/grub2 in pkgsrc, though I can't be sure that it would build
and work.
New FreeBSD versions (12.0-STABLE and current) include efibootmgr and other efi
tools. Maybe import to NetBSD or to pkgsrc?
I still haven't actually tried to use efibootmgr to write UEFI boot variables.
It looks simple enough, but who knows, it could crash, especially from an
unstable version of FreeBSD.
Tom
