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