Manuel Bouyer writes:
 > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:03:07PM -0700, Eric McWhorter wrote:
[...]
 > > 
 > > 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).

Please excuse my lack of experimenting.  Ordinarily I would just try
this and see if it worked, but this is a production development box
and I don't have any i386 boxes for experimenting. :-( I have booting
NetBSD from a floppy working, but it makes me nervous because people
jack floppies all the time here.

When my system boots from wd1, I get:

Jun  1 07:58:10 montana1 /netbsd: wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
[...]
Jun  1 07:58:12 montana1 /netbsd: wd0: no disk label

This disk has NT on it.  How do I get bootmenu installed on wd0?  If I
try to access the disk I get "Device not configured", I can only
assume from the above it's because there is no disklabel.  Do I write
a disklabel?  Won't that give NT an ouchie?

For background, the system has two 4 gigs IDE disks, NT is on all of
wd0 and NetBSD 1.4.2 is on all of wd1.

Thanks again.

-- 
Eric McWhorter
Xerox Special Information Systems
emcwhorter@xsis.xerox.com