Subject: Re: NetBSD & WinNT on one huge EIDE disk.
To: Matt Ragan <wonko@madness.tmok.com>
From: Magnus Enbom <dot@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/07/1997 19:52:38
> Alicia da Conceicao wrote...
> >      I know that DOS & Win95 cannot access more than 1024 cylinders. 
Does
> > anyone know if Win NT 4.0 can?  Also how am I to partition my large
disk in
> > half, in such a way that I can boot from both NetBSD & WinNT, when
about an
> > eight or so of the disk lies below 1024 cylinders?  Also what type of
boot
> > manager can I use to boot NetBSD and WinNT from the same drive.
> >
> I've got my i386 box booting DOS/Win3/Win95 (one FAT partition), Windows
NT 
> (one NTFS partition), Linux (one ext2fs partition) and one NetBSD
partition
> (whole separate drive).  I'm using Linux's LILO to multi-boot the system,
> and is the only reason that there is a Linux partition on the box.  One
of
> these days I or someone will get it ported to NetBSD, and can scrap Linux

> altogether.

You can use the NT bootmanager to boot NetBSD, the procedure is described
in the FreeBSD faq(or handbook). I use it that way, works great.

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Magnus Enbom