On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 04:52:42AM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> On 05-Apr-98 David Hobley spoke unto us all:
> # I have 2 discs, 1 SCSI, 1 IDE. When I installed NetBSD I unplugged the IDE 
> # drive (- call me paranoid, but, I wanted to be safe) and installed everything
> # onto the entire SCSI disc. This works fine. However, when I plugged my IDE
> # drive back in, the bootblocks no longer work (that is, when I select the
> # NetBSD
> # partition from my boot manager, it tells me that disc is not bootable (and I 
> # have to boot from floppy). My first question is:
> # 
> # How can I write bootblocks onto one of my discs so that I can boot NetBSD
> # up without a floppy - without destroying my Win95 partition on the IDE drive
> # ;-)
> # 
> 
> >From the above it sounds like you have IDE==Windows and SCSI==NetBSD.. I'm
> assuming windows boots fine, but BSD does not.  In that case use FDISK /MBR (in
> dos) to write a master boot record to the scsi disk.

This is indeed true. NetBSD is on the SCSI, Windows on the IDE. Windows boots
fine with both discs plugged in.

How do I write an MBR to the SCSI disc specifically ?  From DOS, I run
fdisk/mbr, but this has no impact.

Thinking about it though - I thought there was an MBR on the SCSI disc -
if I unplug the IDE drive, it boots fine. It is only when the IDE drive
is plugged in that NetBSD fails to boot.

-- 
Cheers,
david		-- http://www.angelfire.com/wa/hobley