On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 07:23:07PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:53:08PM -0700, Jerry VanBrimmer wrote:
> > I've read the Guide and found that NetBSD has to be installed into a
> > Primary partition,
> 
> That is no longer true, the NetBSD bootselect code is able to scan the
> extended partition chain [1] [2].

Ah, so I can install NBSD in, say, hdb11? (I'm sure you know, that's
Linux-speak for partition #11 on ide1 drive.)

My ide1 drive is already partitioned likr this:
hdb1  Pri      ext3
hdb2  Ext   
hdb5  Logical  ext3
hdb6  Log      ext3
hdb7  Log      ext3
hdb8  Log      ext3
hdb9  Log      ext3
hdb10 Log      ext3
hdb11 Log      ext3


I would like to install NetBSD in hdb11. Is that possible?


> 
> > but I can't find whether that partition has to be
> > on ide0. Can NBSD be installed into a primary partition on ide1? That
> > is, the second hard drive on ide port 0.
> 
> You can install onto any disk that the BIOS knows of.
> However you need boot code on disk zero that is able to read either
> the mbr or pbr boot code from the other disk.

I have lilo installed in the mbr of hda. Will lilo boot NBSD installed
in hdb11?

> 
> 	David
> 
> [1] Only the text for the menu entries for the bootable extended partitions
>     is held outside of sector 0.
> [2] Using fdisk from any other OS might delete the menu entries for
>     extended partitions.
> 
> -- 
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
>