On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Oops, I wasn't paying attention. For the first part, s/wd0/wd1/. The

thats ok, i just checked and I lied.  Its wd0.  So I tried what you said
and got the same result.  In fact I think this is what I'd done last time
I decided to fix this computer :(

-dan