Re: Dual-boot with Windows - easy

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 14:44:35 +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > With the grub mechanism I like that it can be installed from NetBSD
> > > > (with fuse-ntfs-3g) without having to do anything from Windows.
> > >
> > > But why would you want to load the kernel from NTFS, going through the
> > > hassle of copying the kernel to NTFS each time you build a new one?
> >
> > We have a NetBSD-based product that runs from a kernel with an embedded
> > ramdisk. It then uses vnds for extra modular functionality. I don't need
> > ffs filesystems anywhere (except the ramdisk!).
>
> Well, I'd say that's something *entirely* different from "dual-boot
> with windows" as typical for most people usage scenarios :)

Indeed - but NetBSD likes to be flexible

> > I'm setting up a test box to try all this and I'll update the FAQ to
> > reflect modern usage.
>
> That would be cool, TIA!

Here's a first go:

http://www.netbsd.org/~sborrill/faq.html#nt_boot

--
Stephen