On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:22:34AM -0700, Eric McWhorter wrote:
> 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?

Don't intall a disklabel on it if you don't have a NetBSD partition, it
will erase your partition table. Even without disklabel you should be able
to access the disk though the raw partition, /dev/rsd0d.

'fdisk -B wd0' from NetBSD should install the boot selector.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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