On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:59:17AM +0100, Rasputin wrote:
> 
> Just a quick check - anything I should bear in mond when dual-booting 
> win2k and NetBSD?
> 
> Original setup was:
> 
> 20Gb drive on primary controller of Promise card
> 40Gb drive on 2ndary controller of Promise card
> 
> 20Gb had win98 on it, 40 Gb has NetBSD (Current)
> 
> I booted off cd to the NetBSD drive, then used fdisk to
> install a boot menu onto the windows disk to autoboot netbsd off
> disk 2 after 5 seconds.
> 
> Got annoyed with 98 for crashing so much, thought I'd try win2k
> ("All I want is to play Civ3! Is that too much to ask?") - on reflection,
> a pretty dumb idea, but hey...
> 
> 2k seems very NT-like (NTFS fs, loads 200 drivers for kit I haven't got
> before installing, etc), but I can't seem to replace my bootmenu.
> 
> Either fdisk isn't updating it like it says it is, or I
> need to do something odd.

Ha yes, win2k remplaced your MBR code, but fdisk things it's still there.
a fdisk -c /usr/mdec/mbr_bootsel followed by fdisk -B should fix it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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