At Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:31:50 +0000 (UTC), RVP <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. VirtualBox > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2026, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > Also, BTW, I see in the NetBSD Guide, in the chapter on virtualization, > > that the vesa command should work in /boot.cfg. However I can't get > > this to work, no matter what form of argument I give it, and no matter > > where I put it in /boot.cfg. Indeed even a "vesa list" command in > > /boot.cfg doesn't seem to do anything either. I can't get the "gop" > > command to work from /boot.cfg in my UEFI-booting UTM/QEMU VM either. > > > > `vesa' and `gop' have to go into a `menu=' line, like this: > > ``` > menu=Boot normally:gop 0;boot
Well, duh! I should have known this, having written lots of /boot.cfg
entries for Xen dom0 systems, but it's been a while since I had my head
in any of the bootloader stuff.
Sadly the only example I saw, in the NetBSD Guide (30.4.4. Changing the
console resolution in an x86 VM), was incomplete, showing only the
raw bootloader command, and not also a complete menu entry for /boot.cfg
in a way that would have jogged my memory.
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