Subject: Re: broke bootblocks
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/03/2005 10:13:31
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:49:08PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
>
>It has FreeBSD, WinXP and NetBSD on slice 1, 2 and 3; plus
>Linux on some extended partitions. The last OS I installed
>was WinXP. I don't really care about the Linux install,
>but I'd like to get this thing booting slice 1, 2 or 3.
>
>I tried "fdisk -B wd0" so I could boot into the other non XP
>slices, but it only sees Linux as bootable, and that doesn't
>work.
>
>Below is the output of netbsd "fdisk wd0 ; disklabel wd0"
>from the netbsd 2.0.2 cd.
>
>How do I boot this thing?
>

BTW - I had also tried fdisk -i but still, fdisk -B says the
default boot options are

0: The first active partition
1: Linux
2: Harddisk 0

the NetBSD slice is active, and there is no problem mounting
partitions in it. so why doesn't fdisk allow me to use it for
booting?

// George


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