On 27 July 2014 13:46, Paul Goyette <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2014, David Brownlee wrote: > >> I wonder if the BIOS is performing some additional 'sanity check' on >> the MBR record before accepting it for booting - something that >> Windows and Linux pass by default but NetBSD's does not.. > > Something else that's "interesting" about this machine... > > There's an option where F12 is used to get to a "Boot Menu". When I use it > on the pre-installed Windows 8.1 hard drive, it displays a selection box > with "Windows Boot Manager". If I have also inserted the Ubuntu 14.04.1 DVD > in the drive, there is an addition option labelled "UEFI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM > GHB0N". It seems that these entries are being obtained from the boot > sectors?
I suspect it may be digging deeper into the boot block on a hard disk than a DVD. Can you boot a NetBSD CD/DVD, interrupt it and 'boot hd0:' ?
