Post by @MaddieM4@raphus.social

2026-10-12 00:47 UTC

OKAY! Fucking finally. It was like pulling teeth to figure out where the EFI stuff for NetBSD even was. I knew if I could find that, I could copy it where it needed to go for rEFInd to detect it. Well it was in `/usr/mdec/`, so if you're trying to multi-boot #NetBSD, hot tip to look in there for the stuff that needs copying into your EFI partition. Good grief.

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-10-12 00:59

Looks like the latest NetBSD updates broke the mod key on my keyboard. And once again, finding useful documentation in this era of search is an exercise in: 1. Going, and immediately thereafter, 2. Fucking myself. If it was showing up in `xev` that'd be one thing. But the lack of even wrongly-labeled `xev` events leaves me at a loss for useful guidance.

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@JdeBP@tty0.social 2026-10-12 13:03

@MaddieM4@raphus.social /usr/mdec does get a whole 3 words in hier(7). (-: Is there no mention of mdec in the #NetBSD Guide? Hmmm. This looks like another thing in chapter 22 that needs fixing. If you pass a NetBSD person at all, please tell them that someone has some improvements to the Guide for them. * http://jdebp.info/FGA/BSDs-for-Linux-users/guid-partition-table.html #GPT #DiscPartitioning #Bootstrap

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