On Sun Aug 2, 2026 at 5:14 PM MDT, RVP wrote:
On Sun, 2 Aug 2026, DTB wrote:
My ESP is mounted at /boot/efi, so I've tried placing boot.cfg in the
root of that file system and in its subdirectories EFI/ and EFI/NetBSD/,
and the booter hasn't seen any of these. I saw mention of someone
putting their boot.cfg in their system root but that didn't work for me.
I have a slightly more elaborate setup, with Windows, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD
and OpenBSD on the SSD, and all the BSDs have their own ESP partitions (+ root
and swap). Windows and Ubuntu share the 1st (main) ESP partition.
On the OpenBSD EFI ESP, I have rEFInd too, and the whole mess is booted using
GRUB. So, GRUB is loaded first, and I can boot any of the OSes, and also rEFInd
from the GRUB menu.
If I choose rEFInd, I can then again choose what OSes to boot, and it all works
fine with NetBSD's boot.cfg being used as documented in x86/boot.8. I.e.,
- EFI\NetBSD\boot.cfg on the main EFI ESP is attempted first, then
- /boot.cfg is read from the 1st NetBSD partition.
Can you post your boot.cfg and partition layout?
My boot.cfg is just
root NAME=NETBSD
boot NAME=NETBSD:netbsd
fdisk is worryingly printing
fdisk: /dev/rdk3: DIOCGDEFLABEL: Inappropriate ioctl for device
so from memory here is the layout: My ESP is 1GiB, MS Windows follows for
64GiB, then GNU+Linux for another 64GiB, and then my NetBSD disklabel
partition is 128GiB. My single ESP is being used for all three operating
systems.
:3 <3 -3
