You can use the NT loader for this.  There is a freeware program
called BOOTPART that you can use to make an entry in your BOOT.INI that
points to a file containing the correct bootsector information.  It
works very well with NetBSD.  Do an altavista or lycos search for
BOOTPART-- it's pretty easy to find, just... well, read ALL the
documentation before you do it. :-)

	If you go from a floppy, YMMV.  I boot from a 10 or 20 Mb DOS
partition with my NT Boot.ini and whatever files are required for Win9x,
etc.  Whatever still needs to be on drive C:.  NT is smart enough to
load from another disk, and my NetBSD / partition is on the same drive.


	Note: I haven't actually TRIED having my "/" partition on
another physical disk, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work.

	You can also, if your BIOS is smart (or convenient) enough, you
could just install NT on an IDE drive, then turn the drive off and on as
you please at boot time.  I did this in the days before I discovered
OS-BS.  :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	blymn@baea.com.au [SMTP:blymn@baea.com.au]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 09, 1997 9:47 PM
> To:	netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject:	need a multi-disk boot manager
> 
> 
> Folks,
>         I am looking to "polluting" my machine with the evil NT
> Gatesware which presents me with a dilemma.  Currently my Doom
> Operating System is on a separate 1Gig scsi disk and I just boot from
> floppy when I want to use DOS (of course, I have my NetBSD as my first
> scsi disk and hence that boots from from HD :-) Going for NT means
> that my simple DOS scheme will not work, I need some sort of boot
> manager.  I tried using booteasy 1.7 since that claims to support
> multiple disks (actually, it only supports the first 2 disks it finds
> but I can work around this) but it appears that the disk geometry is
> stuffed up and booteasy will not even boot up my NetBSD.
> 
> So, has anyone got any recommendations for a multi-disk boot manager
> that will work on a system with multiple SCSI drives in it?  I am
> trying to avoid repartitioning my first disk because it is a real pain
> in the arse and I would prefer to keep the disk all unix to make my
> source playing easy.
> 
> -- 
> Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace
> Australia
> ======================================================================
> =========
>   What do you get when you cross a cantaloup with a dog?
> Melancholy :-P
>