On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> Excerpt from Matt London:
> 
>      The problem is the only space I have to put it ATM is on a SCSI drive,
>    and my scsi card has no bios, so I can't boot from SCSI. So, no problem
>    thinks I, and I've got a 60M partition on an IDE drive (wd2g). Now, the
>    problem is, how do I set things up so it can boot from there, and then
>    pull the root fs from sd0a? ATM I'm booting with the install CD to pull up
>    the bootloader (I can't be bothered finding a disk ATM), then running boot
>    wd2g:netbsd -a and specifying sd0a when it asks for root. Not really an
>    idea solution :&)
> (snip)
> 
> Maybe you could try DOSBOOT?  That would require the kernel to be on a
> DOS-readable disk or partition.  You don't say what file system is on wd2g.  I
> don't know how big your NetBSD kernel is, whether it would fit on 3.5" 1.44 MB
> diskette.  I am more familiar with LOADLIN, which is used to boot Linux when
> running DOS.

I could easily put the kernel on a dos partition, the box has win2k,linux
and netbsd on there ATM. I'll take a look at dosboot as a possibility, I
think hard wiring the kernel to use sd0.

-- Matt

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