NetBSD Problem Report #59699

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Date: Thu,  9 Oct 2025 23:44:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: thorpej@me.com
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To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: NetBSD-11-beta install image (oct 7) on USB still does not appear as boot option on Dell XPS 13 9380
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>Number:         59699
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       NetBSD-11-beta install image (oct 7) on USB still does not appear as boot option on Dell XPS 13 9380
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 09 23:45:00 +0000 2025
>Last-Modified:  Fri Oct 10 05:45:01 +0000 2025
>Originator:     Jason Thorpe
>Release:        NetBSD-11-beta releng build oct 7
>Organization:
CISCy Business
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
On a Dell XPS 13 9380, UEFI boot mode enabled, secure boot disabled, a USB stick with the NetBSD-11-beta install image written to it does not appear in the F12-accessed boot menu.

Windows 11 sees the USB stick and that it has a GPT partition table.
>How-To-Repeat:
See above.
>Fix:
N/A

>Audit-Trail:
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/59699: NetBSD-11-beta install image (oct 7) on USB still
 does not appear as boot option on Dell XPS 13 9380
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:28:02 +0200

 On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 11:45:00PM +0000, thorpej@me.com wrote:
 > On a Dell XPS 13 9380, UEFI boot mode enabled, secure boot disabled,
 > a USB stick with the NetBSD-11-beta install image written to it does
 > not appear in the F12-accessed boot menu.

 Sounds like a UEFI bug on that machine, can you boot it by explicitly
 pointing at the /efi/boot/bootx64.efi file on the EFI partition?

 Martin

From: mlelstv@serpens.de (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/59699: NetBSD-11-beta install image (oct 7) on USB still does not appear as boot option on Dell XPS 13 9380
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:41:33 -0000 (UTC)

 gnats-admin@NetBSD.org ("Martin Husemann via gnats") writes:

 > Sounds like a UEFI bug on that machine, can you boot it by explicitly
 > pointing at the /efi/boot/bootx64.efi file on the EFI partition?

 Or maybe just an UEFI setting. That machine has several knobs to
 control USB booting in the setup program.

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