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Re: Regarding the boot process.



Hello

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 3:30 PM Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>
> One thing you should consider is a small USB stick that just has an EFI
> boot partition, with the efi boot and the boot.cfg, and is configured to
> load the kernel from the second hard drive.  That way you could put the
> netbsd disk in the 2nd bay and need the USB to boot, but then not need
> it once booted.  awkward but it could be better than not being able to
> run netbsd on the machine.

That will be the next thing to do.

>
> That's all on the theory that the EFI bios on your machine is buggy and
> fails to work with the 2nd hard drive, and is ok on 1st hard drive and
> on USB>
>

Maybe.

Riza


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