Subject: Re: GRUB, NTFS, and NetBSD
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/03/2002 14:33:35
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:16:23PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:

 > Has anyone installed GRUB on a system like this before?  I don't know a lot 
 > about Win2000 / NT booting but my guess is that the Win2K boot code is 
 > sitting at the beginning of the disk and if I load GRUB I will over-write 
 > this boot code.  Since GRUB doesn't understand NTFS and would need to 
 > chainload Win2K I'm expecting the disk to be fubar'd if I try this since 
 > the Win2K boot loader will have been over-written by GRUB.
 > 
 > Any ideas how I can get this system to boot to either Win2K or NetBSD 
 > without using a floppy?

Why use GRUB when you can use the NetBSD "mbr_bootsel"?  I currently use
this to dual boot one of my PCs with NetBSD and Win2k (Win2k using NTFS).

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>