Subject: Re: how to make boot menu work
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/03/2002 14:36:09
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> ok, stupid question here...  I have netbsd running on my wifes i386.  I
> have a boot selector menu installed (the one I got during the netbsd
> install) so when the machine boots, it says something like
> press f1 for winblows and f2 for netbsd.  If I press the f2 one, it just
> sits and sits.  If I don't press anything it times out and boots winme.
> So far I've just been booting off a CD-ROM and then
>   boot wd1a:netbsd
> to get into netbsd, but I'm finally tired of that.  So whats the right
> thing to run to fix this?

	/usr/mdec/installboot /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a

and maybe, for good measure, run

	fdisk -B wd0

to update the bootselector that you evidently already have.

Frederick