>> i can still boot either bsd if i put in the corresponding install
>> floppy and use those boot blocks...
>> 
>So you can boot netbsd from the first floppy disk by typing boot wd0a:netbsd ?

yep.  the bootblocks from the floppy load and i tell it "boot
wd0a:netbsd" and all is well.

>If so, i am starting to think you misconfigured the
>bootmanager. However, perhaps an other problem is playing here, i
>aint sure. So you filled in that partition 0 is win98, partition 1 is
>freebsd and 2 is netbsd during fdisk -B /dev/rwd0d ?

yep.  that's it.  pressing f1 for win98 works fine.  pressing either
f2 (for freebsd) or f3 (for netbsd) makes it print a 3 and do nothing
else.

>If this is written fine, you'll get those three options during
>booting, but now you say that the netbsd bootmanager can only boot
>win98? Especially cause the netbsd slice start in the first 8 gig,
>but as mentioned by Wolfgang, even that aint a problem so i lost it
>for a while where things are going wrong.  Perhaps Wolfgang or
>someone else knows what is going on, or you will have to be more
>detailed. Bye,

all the partitions start in the first 8 gigs of the disk.  or, perhaps
more importantly, the root partition of netbsd (the last os on the
disk) is all within the first 8 gigs.

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