Re: Boot from disk, serial console over IPMI help for DL160 G6

On 7/19/21 10:20 AM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 17:58, Jeff Rizzo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> In case it clarifies anything, here's what the GPT looks like on all the
>> disks (more or less):
>>
>>          start        size  index  contents
>>              0           1         PMBR
>>              1           1         Pri GPT header
>>              2          32         Pri GPT table
>>             34   230686720      1  GPT part - NetBSD RAIDFrame component
>>      230686754  7583350381      2  GPT part - ZFS
>>     7814037135          32         Sec GPT table
>>     7814037167           1         Sec GPT header
> For the EFI boot to work, you need a FAT16/FAT32 partition, I don't
> see one. The default GPT sysinst partitioning will create one and copy
> the netbsd.efi file, which then should be selectable for boot - if EFI
> is enabled of course. Not much else - no boot blocks or anything of
> the type, just a partition with some .efi files available. On my HP
> (laptops only) I have several of these, booting different systems, one
> of them being NetBSD-current:


Right - I'm pretty sure my machine does NOT support EFI boot. (At least, 
that's what I was reading.  I might be wrong.  I may try it at some point).


thanks for the details, though- might help if I do attempt EFI boot later.

+j


> ┌───────────────────◀▶
> │C:/Temp
> └─▶ dir e:\EFI\BOOT\
>
>      Directory: e:\EFI\BOOT
>
> Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
> ----                 -------------         ------ ----
> d----          30/06/2018    01:16                icons
> -ar--          29/05/2018    17:02         215855 bootia32.efi
> -a---          30/06/2018    01:17         205874 bootx64-netbsd.efi
> -ar--          29/05/2018    17:02         205874 bootx64.efi
> ....
>
> In my case I have to interrupt the default boot process and select an
> .efi file to boot (in one of the last BIOS/UEFI updates HP removed the
> option of setting an .efi file as the default boot option - prior to
> that I had refind setup as the default, which then let me boot
> graphically another 7-8 different systems).
>
> Of course I don't know if this somewhat old server has UEFI at all.
> For this to work with NetBSD, it should support UEFI in CSM mode
> without trusted boot being enabled.
>
>>
>> Anyone care to help?  :)  Thanks in advance!
>>
>> +j
>>
> Chavdar
>
>