Cannot boot, was: Re: Can't install NetBSD to ffs2 partition, no errors

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 18:42, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 04:13:31PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> > 5) Selected NetBSD (dk6@wd0)
> >
> > 6) The menu goes back to point 3 without any apparent errors.
> >
> > I would have expected the menu would offer to create a disklabel from
> > there, but it didn't.
> >
> > No apparent warnings in dmesg.
>
> As Chavdar said: there will be no disklabel, the GPT partitions (and dk*
> wedges) will be enough.
>
> But what you observed clearly is a bug somewhere in sysinst, I'll try to
> reproduce it locally.

Update: good news and bad news.

Good news: I was able to install NetBSD by nuking the ffsv2 partition
and recreating it from scratch, as suggested here:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2020/10/01/msg025800.html


Bad news. The installer didn't ask me if and where I wanted to install
the bootloader and now I can't boot into NetBSD. "update-grub2" from
Linux doesn't pick the NetBSD partition.

All I need to know now is:

1) How do I know if the bootloader has been installed
2) How do I chainload it from Grub.

Now, reading this:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/Installation_on_UEFI_systems/

I don't if it is really still relevant as it was meant for NetBSD 8.*,
it looks like I have to manually copy the bootloader files onto the
EFI partition.

I have mounted the FFSv2 partition onto Linux and this is the fstab:

# NetBSD /etc/fstab
# See /usr/share/examples/fstab/ for more examples.
NAME=NetBSD             /       ffs     rw               1 1
NAME=EFI\ system\ partition             /boot   msdos   rw               0 0
kernfs          /kern   kernfs  rw
ptyfs           /dev/pts        ptyfs   rw
procfs          /proc   procfs  rw
tmpfs           /var/shm        tmpfs   rw,-m1777,-sram%25


Is /boot the correct mount point and are there any files to be copied over?

Shouldn't sysinst have dealt with this already?

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Ottavio Caruso

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