Sep 26, 2026, 17:26 by [email protected]: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2026, Jeff wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:32:39 +0200 (CEST) >> From: Jeff <[email protected]> >> To: Netbsd Users <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: dual boot installation with UEFI >> >> Okay, I just tried again, and failed the same way. I will try to include as >> much detail about what I did as possible, so that hopefully you all can >> point out my mistakes! >> > > sysinst(8) isn't really setup for this use-case (ie. multi-boot), but, there > are workarounds. > > The first thing you should do is to make a backup of `EFI/boot' because > sysinst > *will* unconditionally overwrite any existing BOOT*.EFI files with NetBSD's > own bootloaders: > > mv /some/path/EFI/Boot /some/path/EFI/Boot.bak > This is what the directory currently looks like:
~ # ls -lAR /efi/EFI /efi/EFI: total 4 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 15:04 gentoo /efi/EFI/gentoo: total 160 -rwx------ 1 root root 163840 Sep 23 15:04 grubx64.efi There's nothing named boot*, so will any of what is there need to be moved? Jeff
