Re: How do I update the boot banner?

Hmmm....

# mount /efi
# ls -lR /efi
total 96
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel    779 Oct  4 10:37 boot.cfg
drwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  32768 Jan 31  2025 efi
drwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  32768 Jan 31  2025 netbsd

/efi/efi:
total 32
drwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  32768 Jan 31  2025 boot

/efi/efi/boot:
total 512
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  238608 May 13 05:21 bootx64.efi
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  238608 Mar 22  2025 bootx64.efi.save

/efi/netbsd:
total 32
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  1201 Jan 31  2025 boot.cfg
# more /efi/boot.cfg
banner=++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
banner=+ NetBSD EFI boot (nvme, std loc)+
banner=+    ***** Hooray! *****         +
banner=+ NAME=NVME-EFI:/boot.cfg        +
banner=++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
banner=
banner=Please select from the following menu:

# configuration issues

userconf=disable dwiic*

# boot defaults

rndseed=/var/db/entropy-file
dev=NAME=NVME-sys:

#menu attributes

default=1
timeout=5
clear=1

menu=Boot /SPEEDY/kernel normally:boot SPEEDY
menu=Boot /SPEEDY/kernel single user:boot SPEEDY -s
menu=Boot /GENERIC/kernel normally:boot GENERIC
menu=Boot /GENERIC/kernel single user:boot GENERIC -s
menu=Boot /SPEEDY.old/kernel single user:boot SPEEDY.old -s
menu=Drop to boot prompt:prompt
menu=Run memory test (amd64):boot /usr/pkg/mdec/memtestplus
#


On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Paul Goyette wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>>
>>>  I'm on an x86_84 EFI boot machine running NetBSD-11 and when I boot up
>>>  it has the "Install Boot" banner instead of the ascii flag and "Welcome
>>>  to NetBSD". It seems to affect nothing, but can I fix it? I tried
>>>  copying /usr/mdec/bootx64.efi to /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI at someone's
>>>  suggestions but that wasn't it.
>>>
>>>  Anybody have any ideas for me?
>> 
>> Mount  your  efi partition and look at ${EFI}boot.cfg for the
>> "banner" lines...
>
> I don't see any cfg files.
>
> /mnt/EFI 1029 % find .
> .
> ./BOOT
> ./BOOT/BOOTIA32.EFI
> ./BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
> ./BOOT/FBIA32.EFI
> ./BOOT/FBX64.EFI
> ./FEDORA
> ./FEDORA/GRUB.CFG
> ./FEDORA/BOOTIA32.CSV
> ./FEDORA/BOOTX64.CSV
> ./FEDORA/GCDIA32.EFI
> ./FEDORA/GCDX64.EFI
> ./FEDORA/GRUBIA32.EFI
> ./FEDORA/GRUBX64.EFI
> ./FEDORA/MMIA32.EFI
> ./FEDORA/MMX64.EFI
> ./FEDORA/SHIM.EFI
> ./FEDORA/SHIMIA32.EFI
> ./FEDORA/SHIMX64.EFI
> ./Dell
> ./Dell/BootOptionCache
> ./Dell/BootOptionCache/BootOptionCache.dat
>
> I guess I can delete the FEDORA directory now but that's all I see.
>
> -- 
> Hisashi T Fujinaka - [email protected]
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>
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