from Vincent DEFERT <20....@defert.com>: > I've tried to install NetBSD onto another disk and it worked, so I made > further investigations on the disk having the issue. > I turned out it had a remaining zfs_member signature somewhere, which I > only saw after trying to recreate its partition table with fdisk under > Linux. > Once cleaned, the installation worked fine and the only manual operation > needed is to check /etc/fstab, and fix it if needed.
> I have also installed NetBSD on a server (Dell R610) previously running > FreeBSD. > The problem I had there is that NetBSD does not support EFI partition > sizes greater than 128 MB. > In this case also, I had to wipe the partition table, but I could do it > with NetBSD's gpt(8). > A conclusion of this episode is that NetBSD works well, but is bad at > wiping disks. ;) > Fortunately, this is only needed at installation. :) This is the first time I see anything about NetBSD not booting by UEFI if the EFI system partition > 128 MB. EFI system partition is activated before any OS is booted. I read through the NetBSD wiki about UEFI booting, but where do I find something more comprehensive? Tom
