Subject: Trying to use GRUB to boot NetBSD 1.5
To: NetBSD i386 users <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: scott worley <folokai@earthlink.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/31/2001 07:39:18
Hi,

Can someone help this poor newbie?

My system is infected with Linux and the GRUB bootloader.  I had some 
empty space and installed NetBSD 1.5.  Told it not to install NetBSD 
bootloader, thinking I would use GRUB.  I added the following to GRUB's 
menu.lst

Title NetBSD 1.5
root (hd0,2,a)
kernel --type=netbsd /netbsd

This does start booting NetBSD but the process stops and queries me for 
root location.
For Linux GRUB entries I have lines like:

kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz  root=/dev/sda2

None of the doc's for GRUB I looked at use a root=????  in the kernel 
line for NetBSD.  Do I need one.  Is this why the NetBSD kernel is 
prompting me for root device?

I've never used the NetBSD bootloader so that's why I wanted to preserve 
my GRUB setup.

Thanks in advance.
scott worley
folokai@earthlink.net