Subject: Can't boot after successful install
To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Tracy Nelson <tmnelson@neb.rr.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/30/2005 21:08:13
I recently installed NetBSD 2.0 on my machine. However, when it boots
it doesn't come up with a boot manager, it just goes straight into
Windows. My guess is this has something to do with the fact that my
boot drive is IDE, and I installed NetBSD onto a SCSI drive. However,
when I try to boot from my SCSI card, it says that no OS can be found.
I'm guessing this is because I have two SCSI drives, and NetBSD is
installed on the second one (ID2, with ID1 being my Windows D: drive).
Any suggestions on how I can boot into NetBSD? I looked on the CD, but
I didn't see any way to make a non-install boot disk. Oh, and my
cheap-o CD burner won't boot the CD I made from the 2.0 ISO, so I can't
get into BSD to run fdisk or anything. This is on a Windows ME box
(yeah, well, I've got a lot of bad karma to atone for).
Thanks for any help!
-- Tracy Nelson (tmnelson@neb.rr.com)