Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD 1.3.2
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/07/1998 20:40:58
	See:	
	http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#nt_boot

	We don't have the most complete set of documentation on the
	webpages, but it would be great if people would check there
	first, and possibly even make suggestions for additions :)

		David/absolute

	"Shall I be tempted by the devil thus?"
	"Yes, if the devil tempt you to do good..."

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

> > The beta version of os-bs provided in
> > NetBSD-1.3.2/i386/installation/misc works fine for booting from a
> > secondary IDE drive _BUT_ it uses a couple of sectors in the first
> > track of the first disk so if you are keeping anything other than
> > Windows or DOS on that disk you need to make sure that the first
> > track is still unused.
> 
> In particular, an NT installation would be unhappy if you installed
> os-bs on the drive where NT also lives and occupies the first part of
> the drive.  Yes, I've done this, and NT had to be reinstalled...
> 
> I seem to remember someone talking about how one could use NT's boot
> manager to boot NetBSD, but I don't recall how.  If someone could
> please tell us the details about that, it would be much appreciated.