On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 13:06:44 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:18:37AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:Because of how much easier this is than the method in [1] above, I'm tempted to just wipe out the whole entry in the FAQ and replace it by a tidied up version of the above. Any dissent?Yes, I disagree. The FAQ should be updated to modern installboot features though. You can create the "bootsectors" by dd'ing 512 bytes from /dev/zero and running installboot on them - this (at least to me) seems easier then getting some third party bootloader.
OK. I've never got the method in there to work (it's not reassuring that it refers to a) NT only and b) bootblocks that won't work in NetBSD 1.4 or later), but I'll have another go out of interest. The advantage of using grub is that you can load the kernel from NTFS (libsa doesn't grok
NTFS).
Or just use BootPart http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm that automates the steps outlined in the FAQ for you.
It's not that automatic...With the grub mechanism I like that it can be installed from NetBSD (with fuse-ntfs-3g) without having to do anything from Windows.
-- Stephen