Re: UEFI status? (was Re: GPT/UEFI booting)

2017-08-08 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 05:37:26PM +0900, Masanobu SAITOH wrote: > > I've not used grub2. If someone(TM) succeeded booting > with grub2, it would be good to summarize the howto. > booting with grub2 works, I have a multiboot netbsd/fedora/windows10 laptop setup (I had to use UEFI because that

Re: UEFI status? (was Re: GPT/UEFI booting)

2017-08-07 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 05:37:26PM +0900, Masanobu SAITOH wrote: > Making sysinst UEFI friendly is important. Could someone > do by 8.0-RELEASE? Yes, I'm trying to get my patches for GPT handling in and will verify UEFI installation with that. Martin

UEFI status? (was Re: GPT/UEFI booting)

2017-08-04 Thread Masanobu SAITOH
Hi, all. A few days ago, I successfully booted from UP board. http://www.up-board.org/up/comparison-up-versus-edisongalileo-joule/ UP board's UEFI doesn't support legacy boot. Currently, our sysinst doesn't support creating UEFI bootable disk, so I tried creating disk with reading

Re: GPT/UEFI booting

2017-02-28 Thread Robert Nestor
When I was a young man doing IT support I was always frustrated to find a user who needed help but had sprinkled his scripts with all sorts of random commands he’d found someplace. Now that I’m an old man I find myself doing that very same thing, so I understand and appreciate your confusion

GPT/UEFI booting

2017-02-28 Thread Robert Nestor
I know that setting up a disk with GPT partitions and UEFI booting isn’t supported (yet) in NetBSD. But it seems close and I’d appreciate some hints. Picked up a cheap laptop that only supports UEFI booting on the internal eMMC disk. Although it has Legacy boot support, that only works on