Re: Regarding the boot process.

[Riza Dindir <riza.dindir%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 9:28 PM Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 01:35:01PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > As I read the boot(8) man page, efiboot is like /boot and there are no
> > steps like the MBR boot blocks and bootxx_ffsv1.
>
> Yes, this is how it works - firmware directly loads the full uefi boot
> loader and also has the notion of a "current device", which is what
> it loaded the bootloader from and that is then used to read the partition
> table and find the NetBSD root partition.

This would have to be on the same drive (HDD). meaning the UEFI boot
loader and the OS root partition?

>
> As you speculated the strange memory range printout is probably from the
> firmware, I am not aware of anything similar being printed by any parts
> of a normal NetBSD boot.
>
> So I would assume firmware is somehow unhappy with the bootloader or can't
> find it at all.

Under normal conditions, I could have two disks, each having their own
UEFI partitions, and OS root partitions, and be able to boot from
either disk. Would this be correct?

>
> Martin

Riza