GREAT! Works a charm thanks!

I mailed some people who were having the same problem, so maybe I can
"write a mini-howto" on my poff.sixbit.org website sometime.

Thanks again! Saved me LOTS of hassle :)

If only I could get rid of the m$ bit :D

Poff
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, David Laight wrote:

> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:14:30 +0000
> From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
> To: poff@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: dual booting windows and netbsd (not a repeat!)
>
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:48:50AM +0000, poff@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG wrote:
> > > Put the netbsd mbr_bootsel code onto disk zero, configure so that
> > > F1 boots partition zero (of that disk), F5 will load the
> > > bootstrap from disk one - which will then load netbsd.
> > >
> > > 	David
> >
> > Egh. So umm, this "putting" business works how? I should have said before
>
> Boot into netbsd.
> login (or su) to root.
> # fdisk wd1
> <details of your netbsd disk>
> # fdisk wd0
> <details of your M$ disk>
> # fdisk -B wd0
> Answer 'y' to the relevant questions (I don't know which ones you
> actually see!)
> You will get asked:
>
>     Current boot selection menu option names:
>     0: <UNUSED>
>     1: <UNUSED>
>     2: <UNUSED>
>     3: <UNUSED>
>
>     Change which entry (-1 quits)?: [0]
>
> Type '0' to give a name to partion 0 (output as a prompt during the
> boot process).
>
> You can also set a timeout and default boot.
>
> Have fun....
>
>
> 	David
>
> --
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
>

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