Subject: Re: port-i386/25550: i386 boot selector broken
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gregory=20McGarry?= <gregorymcgarry@yahoo.com.au>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/14/2004 14:41:16
 --- Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:

> > I have NetBSD 2.0 installed in the first MBR partition
> on wd0 and Windows installed in the first MBR partition
> on wd1.  The old boot selector would allow me to assign
> the names "NetBSD" and "Windows" to the F1 and F5 keys to
> boot from these partitions.
> > 
> > 2) None of the F* keys work (it prints "Error?" to the
> display), except for _F2_, which boots from the NetBSD
> partition.  
> 
> for 2), now the boot code uses Fn to boot from the nth
> disk, and n (numerical
> key, 0-9) to boot from the nth partition.

If that is the case, then it doesn't work.  I cannot boot
from a partition on wd1.  Pressing F1 looks like it reloads
the MBR from wd0.  Pressing F2 looks like it loads from the
first partition on wd0 (ie NetBSD).  Pressing F2 should
load the MBR from wd1, shouldn't it?


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