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I have lost my boot menu



Hi There,

I need your help. I have reinstalled my NetBSD 10_RC1 on a partition of my GPT partitioned disk. However for some reason, the installation was unsuccessful when writing the OS sets to the disk. I assume the installer wanted to write the USB stick accidentally. The phenomena was that the copy operation was getting more and more time, then stalled. So, I abandoned the installation and went to the console. There I have installed manually. Unfortunately I could not install the boot chain. This means, I have to use my linux's grub2 to start NetBSD now. You can see my disk layout here:

-bash-5.2# gpt show ld0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34        2014         Unused
        2048      262144      1  GPT part - EFI System
      264192    33554432      2  GPT part - Linux swap
    33818624   134217728      3  GPT part - Linux data
   168036352   201326592      4  GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2
   369362944  1584160768      5  GPT part - Linux data
  1953523712        1423         Unused
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
-bash-5.2#

The EFI partition for NetBSD is like this:

-bash-5.2# ls -l /boot/efi/EFI/boo-bash-5.2# ls -l /boot/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 235690 Nov 15 13:56 /boot/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efit/bootx64.efi

I have copied the boot.cfg into the root of the / partition (dk3)

If I want to boot the EFI directly, then it runs the boot program, however it does not show the menu at all. I can boot only like this:

boot NAME=NetBSD:netbsd

Or, as I mentioned, with GRUB2 directly with the kernel.

So, I want to have the menu back as normally. I hope my description makes sense for you.

Thank you,

FeZ


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