On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 08:38:06AM -0800, Steve Allen wrote:
> OK, I'm at work, tried setting up the system with the NetBSD bootloader,
> and failed miserably.  Here's what I found:
> 
> - There does not appear to be any way to tell it that I want to load Linux
>   out of logical partition 5.  Thus, it won't boot Linux.

Yes, if it's not a primary partition it can't boot it.

> 
> - Win2K does boot, but except for the initial "loading" graphic, the screen
>   is so small and scrunched into the upper left corner that it is unusable.

Strange. All what does the loader is load the boot sector of the partition.
Maybe a geometry problem ?


> 
> And worst of all...
> - It wouldn't boot NetBSD!  I pressed the key for NetBSD (F3), and nothing
>   at all happened -- totally frozen system (same as for Linux, F2).  (I don't
>   know if it has anything to do with the problem, but each partition is 5GB,
>   with the NetBSD partition sitting at the 10GB spot.)

This should work. But maybe the geometry in the partition table
is wrong ?

> 
> I don't have Solaris yet, so was unable to test it.
> 
> 
> So, I'm back to using GRUB, which is kind of unfortunate, really.  Most all
> the PCs here are Win2K, with a smattering of Linux boxes, and I wanted to get
> some NetBSD presence.  I'll try to see if there's a way I can get GRUB to boot
> NetBSD properly.
> 
> On that front, I see two possibilities: One is to embed a NetBSD loader in
> the NetBSD partition and chainload it.  Can this embedding be done?

Yes, and it's probably the best thing to do.

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