On Mon, 2 May 2005, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>
>>> WinXP will boot from the netbsd mbr code, but it may not like you
>>> changing the disk from being disk0 to disk1.
>>
>> Is there some way of switching the disk order? I know that disconnecting
>> the cable from the first drive allows XP to boot from the second. Is it
>> in order of how the BIOS finds them?
>
> It's not so much as to how the BIOS finds them.  Once the WinXP (or for that
> matter, any WinNT derivative) partition begins to boot, the NT kernel looks
> for the root ("C:") drive in \boot.ini (a hidden system file).  You'd need
> to hack up boot.ini to fix the disk reference when moving disks, or else
> you'll end up with a "STOP:...INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" blue screen at boot.

I don't even get that far. When I hit F2 it says "1: WinXP" and then it
just sits there no matter what I do. It finally lets me hit "F1" and
then it boots NetBSD.

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