Re: NetBSD install experiences

[mlh%goathill.org@localhost (MLH)]

Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:10:21PM -0400, MLH wrote:
> > Hmm. I tried the -current installer and though it appeared to
> > indicate it could, I couldn't determine how to without manually
> > creating the gpt partitions.
> 
> See the top part about 9.0 here:
> 
> 	http://wiki.netbsd.org/Installation_on_UEFI_systems/
> 
> The difference to non-UEFI systems is minimal (if the installer has been
> booted via BIOS it will do a BIOS install, if by UEFI it will setup an
> EFI boot). Whether you choose MBR or GPT doesn't matter in either case.
> 
> But this assumes the disk is not partitioned yet (neither MBR nor GPT present).

Thanks. Maybe my bios is just too old. It doesn't boot efi correctly
and maybe it doesn't quite handle gpt partitions quite correctly
either. Might be why I had so much trouble with that.  I still
haven't found a way to have the biosboot boot a specified gpt root
partition without using boot -a.