Re: Regarding the boot process.

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, Riza Dindir wrote:

> I have added both the bootia32.efi file and the bootx64.efi files to
> the EFI partition under the directory /efi/boot.

You can add those files in either the system EFI partition or in an
EFI partition for NetBSD. I do the latter since I boot multiple OSes
(each has its own EFI partition--which I then add to BIOS to select
between while booting).

> The system boots from the drive in the DVD sata slot. But there is
> something not right. The system presents the boot menu. I am not even
> seeing the mem[...] printout anymore, it just passed really quickly.
> Then I selected a normal boot. The system prints "default boot twice,
> skipping...", and the system just is very slow in spinning the textual
> gadget, between the numbers. That stage takes minutes, not seconds.
>
> Why would this stage be so slow?

So HDD connected to the DVD slot is slow. I wonder if the BIOS has
configured that to some slow PIO/DMA mode. Check the BIOS settings
for the DVD drive.

But, Michael or Martin would know more about this stuff...

> So maybe having a USB stick with a EFI partition on it might be a
> better and a more portable idea (as Greg suggested), instead of having
> a USB DVD drive connected to the system, and having a boot process
> that is slow.

Yes. that is a very good fall-back suggestion.

-RVP