Since you are using a floppy, why bother with the DOSBOOT.COM?
Just put the normal NetBSD bootstrap code on the floppy.  It should be much
faster also.  It shouldn't take much to convince the code to boot the hard
disk by default rather than the floppy.

-Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Grunza" <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: 30GB/10GB partition


> My new PC will have a 30GB 1st partition for WinME and the rest of the
> 40+GB disk for NetBSD.  Will the dosboot.com program be able to boot
NetBSD
> from the 2nd partition?  I would like to use the presence of the boot
> floppy as the "Use NetBSD mode" switch so my company's IT guys don't get
> upset about my loading a boot loader on the disk (and then needing to
> re-install everything when I do it wrong ;)
>
> I'm also guessing that the new machine's audio card will not be supported
> under NetBSD, yet, so I'll probably need to boot to MSDOS from floppy, run
> a MSDOS sound card "go to SoundBlaster emulation mode" program, and then
> run dosboot.
>
> My current dosboot command line is: dosboot -u wd0a:netbsd
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions on the above plan?
>
> Steven G.
>


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