Re: Regarding the boot process.

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

Hello,

First I wanted to thank all for their feedback in booting the system.

I was not able to boot it directly from the HDD, but have created a
usb to just boot the system as RVP pointed out, and this is working.
No slow boot process as I was explaining. I am assuming that the
laptop has problems with its firmware/UEFI.

Regards,
Riza

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 2:28 AM Riza Dindir <riza.dindir%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 1:33 AM RVP <rvp%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > 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).
>
> I have an option in my bios to select the efi file to make that boot.
> But this can be selected when secure boot is on.
>
> >
> > > 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...
>
> The HDD connected to the DVD slot is not that slow. It just sits
> there, in the first stages, and takes longer to start spitting out the
> diagnostics messages. After that the system is usable as far as I can
> see, and can use X.
>
> Of course, I also need the DVD drive connected via USB to the system,
> to skip the "mem[...]" stage, which is not logical, and am trying to
> figure out why.
>
> But there is no way to configure that kind of thing, as far as I can
> remember. I will look at that again.
>
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Yep, that i will try, if i can not get the system running smoothly.
>
> >
> > -RVP
>
> Riza