Re: How to boot in UEFI mode: practically no documentation

2018-06-01 Thread John Nemeth
On May 29, 10:34am, Martin Husemann wrote: } On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 08:15:43AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: } } > Where do I find documentation on how to boot NetBSD amd64 or } > possibly i386 in UEFI mode? } } I'm working on a wiki page (and will change the NetBSD 8.0 install docs } to point

Re: How to boot in UEFI mode: practically no documentation

2018-05-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thanks for the suggestions. I could try to see what happens with /usr/mdec/bootx64.efi and FreeBSD's /loader.efi, possibly copied to $EFI_PARTITION/EFI/boot Also, I have an EFI and non-EFI version of grub2 compiled for FreeBSD, also want to take a look at FreeBSD's efibootmgr (in base

Re: How to boot in UEFI mode: practically no documentation

2018-05-29 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
Just to say that all this worked for me. I had some 100gb left free on a GPT disk with a few other systems installed and finally decided to try EFI boot, using the efi boot image from releng. I only had to create /dev entries for dk16, dk17 and dk18, 16 were not enough. I also had to disable

Re: How to boot in UEFI mode: practically no documentation

2018-05-29 Thread Martin Husemann
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 08:15:43AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Where do I find documentation on how to boot NetBSD amd64 or possibly i386 in > UEFI mode? I'm working on a wiki page (and will change the NetBSD 8.0 install docs to point to that). I can't answer how to boot into alternative

Re: How to boot in UEFI mode: practically no documentation

2018-05-29 Thread Patrick Welche
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 08:15:43AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Where do I find documentation on how to boot NetBSD amd64 or possibly i386 in > UEFI mode? > > I couldn't find any man page and couldn't find anything useful in the online > NetBSD wiki. > > I don't want to be limited to NetBSD,

Re: How to boot in UEFI mode: practically no documentation

2018-05-29 Thread Paul Goyette
I bookmarked this Email a while ago - it might help... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2017/02/28/msg031220.html On Tue, 29 May 2018, Thomas Mueller wrote: Where do I find documentation on how to boot NetBSD amd64 or possibly i386 in UEFI mode? I couldn't find any man page and

How to boot in UEFI mode: practically no documentation

2018-05-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Where do I find documentation on how to boot NetBSD amd64 or possibly i386 in UEFI mode? I couldn't find any man page and couldn't find anything useful in the online NetBSD wiki. I don't want to be limited to NetBSD, would also want to be able to boot FreeBSD and Linux in UEFI mode. I