On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:08:13PM -0600, Tracy Nelson wrote:
> 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).

Looks like you bios is always booting bisk 0x80 (in bios numbers).
You need to put something into the MBR of that disk to allow the other
disk(s) to be booted.

> Any suggestions on how I can boot into NetBSD?

Boot the NetBSD install CD, when it comes up in systinst type x (or ^C).
That should give you a root prompt on the install kernel (etc).

Run 'fdisk wd0', select 'n' to the question about bios geometry, then
edit your windows partition, type enter to the partition type and size
(this leaves them unchanged), but enter a short name for the 'bootmenu'.
Exit saving everything and it should ask whether you want to update the
mbr code - which you do.

Now, when you boot disk0 the netbsd mbr code will give a menu (with one
entry for windoze), but you can hit the Fn keys to boot the mbr of
a different disk.  I think F3 will boot the disk you've got netbsd on.
(The bios must have given it a number or else you couldn't have installed
on it.)

If you go down the grub route, you'll find that it need to squirrel
stuff away in a filesystem somewhere.  The netbsd mbr bootselect code
sits entirely within the first sector.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk