On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:08:25PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:46:48AM -0700, The Grey Wolf wrote:
> 
> > > it can be only done well by installing windows first.
> > 
> > That's absurd.  Any chance we can fix this?
> 
> There's nothing to fix, it's patently untrue.

Quite - I tried something similar a while ago, trying to move an old
win98 disk into a partition on a NetBSD disk using just NetBSD tools.
I couldn't get it to boot. My guess is that although the MBR was correct,
the problem was with whatever counts as a 2nd stage bootloader in windows.
I tried dd'ing various bits from the old disk, but as their geometries etc
were different there wasn't much hope. I did then just give up and ran
the windows setup.exe which just worked (as in, didn't do the full setup,
just let it run for a bit, quit, booted back to NetBSD and pax'd the old
disk in).

Cheers,

Patrick