Date:Fri, 9 Sep 2022 11:10:36 +0200
From:Rhialto
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| How does the UEFI system decide what to boot?
There are a whole set of variables in UEFI internal storage
One group of those are named BOOT where the is a 4
digit hex value. Its value is
On Thu 08 Sep 2022 at 12:36:46 -0400, Brad Spencer wrote:
> This is a clear indication of a UEFI boot. There is confusion in the
> docs about where the boot.cfg file should be located. I have also found
> that the desired behavior works if it is in the root of the EFI
> filesystem.
How does the
> > > If anyone wants to play with UEFI booting and has access to a recent Xen
> > > DOM0 system you can install the pkgsrc/sysutils/ovmf package and point a
> > pkgsrc/sysutils/ovmf does not build on -current at least - and hasn't been
> > building for a long while.
>
> Hmm... unfortunate...
Chavdar Ivanov writes:
[snip]
> > If anyone wants to play with UEFI booting and has access to a recent Xen
> > DOM0 system you can install the pkgsrc/sysutils/ovmf package and point a
> pkgsrc/sysutils/ovmf does not build on -current at least - and hasn't been
> building for a long while.
On 08 September 2022 17:36:46 (+01:00), Brad Spencer wrote:
> Paul Goyette writes:
>
> > On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Paul Goyette wrote:
> >
> >> Would be nice to get my menu back and have it default to the NetBSD
> >> system partition, but at least it boots!
> >
> > I got my menu back. Just had to
Paul Goyette writes:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Paul Goyette wrote:
>
>> Would be nice to get my menu back and have it default to the NetBSD
>> system partition, but at least it boots!
>
> I got my menu back. Just had to put it at /efi/boot.cfg (ie, at the
> root of the EFI partition).
>
>
>
Date:Thu, 8 Sep 2022 08:07:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:Paul Goyette
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| I got my menu back. Just had to put it at /efi/boot.cfg (ie, at the
| root of the EFI partition).
That's interesting, not where it is supposed to be placed - I hadn't
tried putting one
Date:Thu, 8 Sep 2022 07:46:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:Paul Goyette
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| (The EFI partition is still marked ``bootme''.)
That one you should probably turn off - bootme (the UEFI "where to boot"
flag) should be on the NetBSD root partition.
Or not there at all,
On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Paul Goyette wrote:
Would be nice to get my menu back and have it default to the NetBSD
system partition, but at least it boots!
I got my menu back. Just had to put it at /efi/boot.cfg (ie, at the
root of the EFI partition).
Yay - it boots again!
I re-ran ``gpt biosboot'' and ``installboot'' specifying the NetBSD
partition (index=2), and completely disconnected the hard drives.
It booted! But I think it is still confused.
The BIOS no longer offers EFI as a boot option. Yet, the boot menu
I get is the NetBSD flag
Date:Wed, 7 Sep 2022 20:37:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:Paul Goyette
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| I tried to run gpt biosboot (and specified -i 1 for the partition)
| and I also ran installboot.
You didn't show the GPT tables for this system, so "-i 1" means nothing
to anyone but you
On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 08:37:43PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On a positive front, the BIOS seems to now recognize the NVMe as
> having a UEFI OS. Trying to boot it takes me down some new path
> having to do with SecureBoot, and I don't have time for that now.
There is typicaly a setting in
OK, now I _really_ messsed things up, to the point where I have to
write this using the old spinny-rust! Kernel is at least a month
out of date!
I tried to run gpt biosboot (and specified -i 1 for the partition)
and I also ran installboot.
Result: an unbootable system. :( Just goes back to
On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Robert Elz wrote:
Do you have evidence that the motherboard can boot from nmve at all?
If the motherboard in question is of a similar vintage to those 10 year
old boxes of rust, then it might not be able to, and you might need some
kind of SATA (or perhaps USB) device to
Date:Wed, 7 Sep 2022 13:39:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:Paul Goyette
Message-ID:
| I have completely disconnected the wd0 and wd1 hard drives, and now
| the motherboard/BIOS can't find something (primary boot?). It does
| not give any helpful messages (no messages at
On Wed, 7 Sep 2022, Michael van Elst wrote:
p...@whooppee.com (Paul Goyette) writes:
I have completely disconnected the wd0 and wd1 hard drives, and now
the motherboard/BIOS can't find something (primary boot?). It does
not give any helpful messages (no messages at all), but just goes
back
p...@whooppee.com (Paul Goyette) writes:
>I have completely disconnected the wd0 and wd1 hard drives, and now
>the motherboard/BIOS can't find something (primary boot?). It does
>not give any helpful messages (no messages at all), but just goes
>back to the interactivve BIOS screens.
It's
I'm trying desperately to retire my way-too-old spinny-rust, but I
have run into a little problem.
I have completely disconnected the wd0 and wd1 hard drives, and now
the motherboard/BIOS can't find something (primary boot?). It does
not give any helpful messages (no messages at all), but just
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