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