Subject: Booting NetBSD on a second hard disk
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Strawberry <strawberry@toth.org.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/25/1998 03:03:19
I have two hard disks. The first is about 196 Megabytes, is the bootable
disk and has Windows '95 on it (argh, but there we are). The second disk
is 1523 Megabytes and has two partitions, both FAT. If I installed
NetBSD/i386 on the second partition of the second disk. What's the
easiest way to boot into NetBSD on this partition.

Additional problem: I have an old BIOS which only sees the first 512
Megabytes of the second disk but I have a small program that appears on
startup called EZ-Boot and allows any operating systems loaded after
this small program to access the whole of the second disk, I think this
small program may be located in the boot blocks of one of the disks
which is a problem for a bootblock resident bootloader.

Is there any way to boot NetBSD from the second partition? I know it's
possible to install it there, and once it's on there I can mount it
using the install floppy so the whole of the second drive is accessible
to NetBSD.

What's the least painful way of booting NetBSD?

   Thanks in advance

              Chrissy Lloyd