Subject: Re: How to write NetBSD boot blocks to DOS disk?
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/28/1996 11:53:05
>Like I said, I have the NetBSD and MS-DOS paritions working on the
>same disk.  But, I can't boot the NetBSD parition off the EIDE drive.
>How do I write the NetBSD boot blocks?  When I try "disklable -B ..."
>it trashes the MS-DOS partition data.  I know others have made this
>work.  How did you do it?

Did you try using the NetBSD "fdisk" on this disk and make sure that it
agrees with the proto label?  Also, you said this is a disklabel proto
file -  Are you using -R along with -B to read in the proto file?  Is
the label on the disk?

(I'm wondering about that offset for the MS-DOS parition - usually it's
32, not 63).

--Ken