Re: How to control booting via BIOS vs booting via EFI?
Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:27:40 +0200
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 09:59:09PM +0200, Johan Stenstam wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Many thanks for your response. > > > On 12 Oct 2025, at 18:36, Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would be suprised if NetBSD/xen could not boot via UEFI but actually all > > my xen machines still use BIOS boot (mostly for historical reasons). > > > > We have multiboot2 support, so technically it is unclear to me why xen > > would fail. > > While I would very much like that to be true, I simply do not understand enough of the boot magic to have an opinion other that ?it seems not to work?. I have a Xen system booting via EFI (this machine doesn't support BIOS boot): menu=Boot Xen PV:load /netbsd console=pc root=dk1; multiboot /xen-debug.gz dom0_mem=8192M console=com1,vga com1=115200,8n1 conring_size=4096k sync_console -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --