Re: [PATCH] BIOS boot vs EFI system partition mountpoint
Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:22:26 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386 |
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 04:14:46PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote: > (b) update the primary bootloader with installboot and move /boot to > /biosboot if they want to turn the existing image into a hybrid image > that can also be booted with EFI (assuming it's already on a GPT). Minor nit: GPT is unrelated here, but the disk needs to have space for a new EFI System Partition (or already have one). You can UEFI-boot MBR partitioned disks just fine. I guess the main point of confusion is that you can't add /boot as a directory to the mtree specials file or similar (or find/add some mtree notation that allows it to be a file instead), and that you are not going to create a directory /boot on updates (but would do so on new installs, via sysinst at runtime, and not include the dir in any sets). Martin