Re: How do I update the boot banner?

[email protected] (Hisashi T Fujinaka) writes:

>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?


The ascii flag is compiled into the bootloader (bootx64.efi for x86_64).

If you use a boot.cfg file, it can override this with the 'banner'
command. The bootloader searches for the boot.cfg file in

esp:/EFI/NetBSD/boot.cfg
- that is the EFI system partition (where the bootloader is).

boot.cfg
- that is on the boot partition (where the kernel is loaded from by default).

The arm EFI bootloader only knows the second place.
Earlier versions of the bootloader were slightly different.


The boot partition is not necessarily the NetBSD root, but it is
the partition marked for booting.

So you could tell the bootloader to boot from some partition with
a boot.cfg file.  In the boot.cfg file you tell the bootloader to
fetch the kernel from some other place.  And then tell the
kernel to use even something else as the NetBSD root.