Subject: Re: work w/ NT?
To: Benjamin Tomhave <tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@plexus.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/27/1996 22:51:40
On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Benjamin Tomhave wrote:
> Does NetBSD work
> w/ NT on an x86 system? Namely, will the NT bootmanager or the NetBSD
> boot manager allow the use of the other operating system?
Yes, it does, but the NT "boot manager," such as it is, runs from a FAT
(or NTFS) filesystem. I'm not aware of any out-of-the-box way to boot
NetBSD in this scenario. Also, NetBSD doesn't have a boot manager,
either.
The good news is that you can use any of several off-the-shelf boot
selectors, such as BOOTEASY, OS-BS, or even LILO. You should be able to
find these fairly easily, and last I looked I think I saw one or two of
them on ftp.netbsd.org (and mirrors).
--scottt