Subject: How to boot from NetBSD partition?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Scott Mitchell <rsm1@lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/13/1995 12:07:11
Hi all,
I installed NetBSD-i386 for the first time this morning -- everything seemed
to be fine until the time came to reboot into my new OS. Some background:
My system is a DECpc LPx+ DX4/100, 8Mb RAM, 2 IDE drives -- a 270Mb C: and a
540 Mb D:. DOS/Windows lives on the 270Mb disk, and the plan was to devote
the entire 540Mb drive to NetBSD.
The installation appeared to proceed perfectly, but I now have no idea how to
get the system to boot from the 2nd IDE disk. I still want to be able to use
DOS/Win, so I assume I need to install some kind of boot selector. I grabbed
'os-bs' from ftp.netbsd.org, thinking this would do the trick, but it doesn't
notice the prescence of the 2nd drive....what have I done wrong?!
If its relevant, the disks are a Western Digital WDAC1270F (917cyl, 12head,
48sec) and a Seagate ST3660A (1057cyl, 16head, 63sec). All the hardware is
recognised correctly by the insatllation disk.
Many thanks in advance,
Scott Mitchell
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