Subject: Re: How to boot from wd0
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/23/2002 13:32:24
And it works quite well.  Thanks.  Ever since RedHat 7.1 blew away a 
multi-OS disk (that wasn't mine) I've been paranoid about boot loaders....

At 07:09 PM 10/23/2002 +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:
> >          NetBSD-1.6 on second partition -- installed without saying yes to
> > either the boot loader, custom boot blocks, or anything else that sounded
> > like it was going to change how the machine boots
>
>..and that's where you went wrong :) You should've installed the NetBSD
>bootloader. Boot into NetBSD, do "fdisk -B wd0" and follow instructions.
>It'll work fine, for any modern BIOS the NetBSD boot code doesn't care
>where the NetBSD partition is on the disk.
>
>See also fdisk(8) and mbr(8).
>
>- Frank
>
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>Frank van der Linden                                    fvdl@wasabisystems.com
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