I have a 2015 vintage HP Pavilion with an early, buggy UEFI. I have installed NetBSD on this box several times over the years, but now 11RC5 goes through the installation smoothly, all the configuration and setup, but then won't boot, says there is no operating system. As near as I can tell, the installation process writes nothing at all to the EFI partition.
Most recently I had FreeBSD installed on this box. I left the EFI partition, deleted all the rest (zroot), and created a new swap partition and a 32GB partition for NetBSD (I want to leave space for other things). I put the install image on a USB memstick and booted it as a UEFI device. Should I have deleted the old EFI partition first? Or should I have booted the memstick installer in legacy BIOS mode? Or is there something else I'm just not getting? -- Ted Spradley <[email protected]>
