Andrew Brown wrote:
> i installed the linux first, after completely setting up the partition
> table with the linux partition as "active" and planned on using lilo
> to choose between linux, netbsd, and dos.  then i went on to install

> now, unless i use lilo via a floppy, the mbr just jumps right to
> netbsd without even consulting which partition is active.

I can't remember where I read it, but somewhere it said that lilo
doesn't work too well with BSD (I don't know why or how lilo works)
but os-bs does. (Indeed weren't it for my mysterious panics under
netbsd, I could proudly say I have netbsd and dos running on one
machine, with partitions left free for another OS which will probably
be NT.) BTW I use the beta osbs, and I started the first partition
with offset 32, even though osbs beta only uses 5 or 6 sectors at the
beginning. osbs 1.35 fits in the MBR, so no extra room is necessary.

Good luck,

 Patrick