On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Peter Bex wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:11:51PM +0100, Ja'far Railton wrote:
>>
>> I have had a look at the archives etc. Some info is outdated  it seems,
>> some a bit vague (for me). So if anyone can tell me (or point me to)
>> the best way to install NetBSD on wd1 and have it bootable, I would
>> appreciate it.
>>
>> At the moment I have Win98 on the first 6 GB HD, Linux on the second,
>> and I boot from GRUB. I want to wipe Linux and put NetBSD in its place.

> I have a similar setup.  It seems that the NetBSD bootloader is currently
> not capable of booting NetBSD from another disk than the bootdisk.

You can! In current and 2.0_BETA, the function keys choose the disk, 
while the numeric keys choose the partition from the bootmenu (mbr(8)). 
In 1.6.x and older, you used to have to add the other disk to the 
bootmenu. You can't do that anymore, but then, you don't have to.

Frederick