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How to install NetBSD on a libreboot system

- This section relates to preparing, booting and installing - NetBSD on your libreboot system, using nothing more than a USB flash drive (and dd). They've only been tested on a librebooted ThinkPad X60. -

- It is expected that you use text mode in libreboot (txtmode images), - for the early boot process in NetBSD. - Suspend/hibernate is broken, according to at least 1 user. -

- Thanks go to ioxcide in this Reddit post - for the initial instructions. -

Prepare the USB drive (in NetBSD)
Installing NetBSD without full disk encryption
Installing NetBSD with full disk encryption
Booting
Configuring Grub
Troubleshooting

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- This section is only for the GRUB payload. For depthcharge (used on CrOS devices in libreboot), instructions - have yet to be written in the libreboot documentation. -

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- netbsd.iso is the installation image for NetBSD. Adapt - the filename accordingly, for your version of NetBSD. -

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Prepare the USB drive (in NetBSD)

- This page - on the NetBSD website shows how to create a NetBSD bootable USB drive - from within NetBSD itself. You should use the dd method - documented there. -

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Prepare the USB drive (in FreeBSD)

- This page - on the FreeBSD website shows how to create a bootable USB drive - for installing FreeBSD. Use the dd on that page. You can - also use the same instructions with a NetBSD ISO image. -

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Prepare the USB drive (in LibertyBSD or NetBSD)

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- If you downloaded your ISO on a LibertyBSD or NetBSD system, - here is how to create the bootable NetBSD USB drive: -

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- Connect the USB drive. Check dmesg:
- $ dmesg | tail
- - Check to confirm which drive it is, for example, if you think its sd3:
- $ disklabel sd3 -

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- Check that it wasn't automatically mounted. If it was, unmount it. For example:
- $ doas umount /dev/sd3i
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- dmesg told you what device it is. Overwrite the drive, writing the NetBSD installer to it with dd. For example:
- $ doas netbsd.iso of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1M; sync
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- You should now be able to boot the installer from your USB drive. Continue reading, for - information about how to do that. -

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Prepare the USB drive (in GNU+Linux)

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- If you downloaded your ISO on a GNU+Linux system, - here is how to create the bootable NetBSD USB drive: -

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- Connect the USB drive. Check dmesg:
- $ dmesg
- - Check lsblk to confirm which drive it is:
- $ lsblk -

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- Check that it wasn't automatically mounted. If it was, unmount it. For example:
- $ sudo umount /dev/sdX*
- # umount /dev/sdX* -

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- dmesg told you what device it is. Overwrite the drive, writing your distro ISO to it with dd. For example:
- $ sudo dd if=install60.fs of=/dev/sdX bs=8M; sync
- # dd if=netbsd.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M; sync -

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- You should now be able to boot the installer from your USB drive. Continue reading, for - information about how to do that. -

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Installing NetBSD without full disk encryption

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- You might have to use an external USB keyboard during the installation. - Press C to access the GRUB terminal. -

- grub> knetbsd -r sd0a (usb0,netbsd1)/netbsd
- grub> boot -

- It will start booting into the NetBSD installer. Follow the normal process for installing NetBSD. -

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Installing NetBSD with full disk encryption

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- TODO -

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Booting

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- Press C in GRUB to access the command line: -

- grub> knetbsd -r wd0a (ahci0,netbsd1)/netbsd
- grub> boot -

- NetBSD will start booting. Yay! -

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Configuring Grub

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- If you don't want to drop to the GRUB command line and type in a command to boot NetBSD every time, you can create a GRUB configuration that's aware of your NetBSD installation and that will automatically be used by libreboot. -

- On your NetBSD root partition, create the /grub directory and add the file libreboot_grub.cfg to it. Inside the libreboot_grub.cfg add these lines: -

- default=0 - timeout=3 - menuentry "NetBSD" {
- knetbsd -r wd0a (ahci0,netbsd1)/netbsd
- }
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The next time you boot, you'll see the old Grub menu for a few seconds, then you'll see the a new menu with only NetBSD on the list. After 3 seconds NetBSD will boot, or you can hit enter to boot. -

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Troubleshooting

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- Most of these issues occur when using libreboot with coreboot's 'text mode' instead of the coreboot framebuffer. - This mode is useful for booting payloads like memtest86+ which expect text-mode, but for NetBSD - it can be problematic when they are trying to switch to a framebuffer because it doesn't exist. -

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- In most cases, you should use the vesafb ROM images. Example filename: libreboot_ukdvorak_vesafb.rom. -

- -

won't boot...something about file not found

- Your device names (i.e. usb0, usb1, sd0, sd1, wd0, ahci0, hd0, etc) and numbers may differ. Use TAB completion. -

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