Subject: Re: Installing Boot record?
To: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Baw <baw@wuccrc.wustl.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/10/1997 08:09:22
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Michael C. Richardson wrote:
> Did you have a DOS partition table on the disk? If yes, does it
> start at cylinder 0? If not, then NetBSD put its boot record at the
> beginning of the NetBSD partition, rather than in block 0. You would
> need a boot selector, or you need to nuke your DOS partition table and
> reinstall.
Yes, I think that's my problem. I'm trying to share a harddisk
between NetBSD and Linux, and assigned NetBSD's partition to start from
cylinder 1 instead. I'm thinking of using LILO as boot selector. Any
comment on how that can be done cleanly will be much appreciated (I
really hope this can be done).
Thanks in advance.
Baw