On Wednesday 30 Nov 2022 20:26:51 Rhialto wrote: > On Sun 27 Nov 2022 at 23:10:45 +0000, Dave Tyson wrote: > > Sadly I discovered that the HP Proliant microserver the installation > > was for doesn't grok UEFI and only deals with bios booting. I did have > > an attempt to get it to install with raid on gpt but then fell foul of > > pr 44982. So for this system its back to traditional mbr layout... > > NetBSD can boot from GPT disks even when booting using the BIOS. > See manual page gpt(8) subcommand "biosboot". > On my machine, I have both biosboot and UEFI boot set up. > > -Olaf.
I have got GPT disks to boot fine with the biosboot command - that works for ordinary installs on a single boot disk - but won't work if you want to use a raid boot over two physical disks as biosboot doesn't know how to step over the raid preamble according to pr44982 Dave
