Subject: Re: Using GRUB bootloader question
To: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/05/2001 12:55:10
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:10:57AM -0500, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> >I now have my system doing multi-boot into Win2K, Linux and NetBSD.
> >Mostly it works OK, except the NetBSD boot stops at this point:
> 
> Does Win2K do any damage to the boot loader?  I've read about Win2K overwriting
> OS/2 Boot Manager when a user tries to run OS/2 Warp 4 & Win2K on the same hard 
> disk.
> 
> Does NetBSD boot selector use a partition (like OS/2 Boot Manager) or no
> partition (like LILO)?

It's in the MBR, so no partition

> 
> Can NetBSD boot selector boot an OS in a logical partition?

No

> 
> Can LILO boot NetBSD?

Yes, as any other primary partition.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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