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)