On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:03:07PM -0700, Eric McWhorter wrote:
> First, I upgraded a production box from 1.3.2 to 1.4.2 this weekend.
> It went well enough that my head won't end up on a block, so thanks go 
> out to all those who worked on the upgrade proceedure, the i386 FAQ,
> and the wscons FAQ.
> 
> Under threat of a really boring assignment, I'm being forced to do
> some development on NT.  So, I want to dual boot a PC.  I thought I'd
> first try to add NetBSD to the NT boot menu.  The instructions say if
> NetBSD is not on the first disk (it is on the second disk in my case), 
> I need to hack /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/boot.  I got my source tree from 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/source/sets/syssrc.tgz,
> which seems to be missing /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/boot.  Where do I get 
> /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/boot for NetBSD 1.4.2?

It's in the syssrc.tgz set.

> 
> I then tried to use bootmenu, which apparently doesn't work when all
> partitions used to boot are not on the same hard disk, unless I missed
> something.  Can bootmenu be used to boot different partitions on
> different disks?  It wasn't clear to me whether or not this is
> possible after reading the FAQ and the fdisk man page.

Yes, it's possible. You may have to install it on each disk, however
(the boot menu on the first disk can only call the MBR on the second disk).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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