On Thu, 30 Dec 2021, Pedro Pinho wrote:
Not adding anything here but, this is something users ask everynow and then on
different forums.
It would be awesome if the wiki contained a guide on how to set-up a dualboot,
Windows/NetBSD and
Linux/NetBSD. Including seting up rEFInd would be the icing on the cake.
As an update to my initial post, I now made this work. The trick was to
use a bootx64.efi from NetBSD-current, which looks much improved from the
one shipped in -9. Notably, the kernel boots with a low-resolution
graphical console and switches to the proper console font and resolution a
bit later.
This how the setup works:
My root partition on the second SSD is a GPT part named "shiso-root"
(shiso is the host name).
I installed rEFInd according to the "Installing from Windows" section in
its docs. Then, I copied /usr/mdec/bootx64.efi from an extracted base.tgz
to \EFI\NetBSD\bootx64.efi on the EFI system partition. In the root
directory of that partition, I placed the kernel (which ended up not being
necessary) and a boot.cfg file.
The sequence of commands to boot is
root NAME=shiso-root
boot NAME=shiso-root:/netbsd
The rEFInd boot menu is graphical and nicer than manually hitting the key
for selecting the boot device at the right point :)
--
Benny
