Martin Husemann wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:10:21PM -0400, MLH wrote: > > Hmm. I tried the -current installer and though it appeared to > > indicate it could, I couldn't determine how to without manually > > creating the gpt partitions. > > See the top part about 9.0 here: > > http://wiki.netbsd.org/Installation_on_UEFI_systems/ > > The difference to non-UEFI systems is minimal (if the installer has been > booted via BIOS it will do a BIOS install, if by UEFI it will setup an > EFI boot). Whether you choose MBR or GPT doesn't matter in either case. > > But this assumes the disk is not partitioned yet (neither MBR nor GPT > present).
Thanks. Maybe my bios is just too old. It doesn't boot efi correctly and maybe it doesn't quite handle gpt partitions quite correctly either. Might be why I had so much trouble with that. I still haven't found a way to have the biosboot boot a specified gpt root partition without using boot -a.
