Subject: Re: i386-current: how do I boot Windows off of my second disk.
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/24/2006 01:11:41
In article <cee681b00601231416u55168845k7ec5c3e9a2e62b57@mail.gmail.com>,
Sam Tran <stlist@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 1/23/06, Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org> wrote:
>> Here's the problem: You can't use the NetBSD boot selector with Win
>> NT, 2000, or XP Pro. (This might be true of XP Home as well, but I haven't
>> tested it.)
>
>Brian,
>
>I managed to dual boot Windows XP Pro and NetBSD 3.0 on my laptop
>using the NetBSD boot selector. No problem at all and very simple.
>
So have I. I used partition magic to resize my vaio's windows
partition, then installed NetBSD in the free space, and finally
installed the netbsd bootblocks. Now I have 3 bootable partitions;
the restore partition, the xp partition, and the NetBSD one.
christos