Now, this is interesting.

I am booting W2k and NetBSD on the same system, with NetBSD being the
default (and listed at F1).  In order to boot from W2k, if I hit,
simply, F6, nothing happens, and it hangs, and I have to restart.  If I
hit F1, of course, it jumps into the NetBSD boot.

Now, if I hit F5, it re-prompts for NetBSD at F1, BUT if I *then* hit
F6, it goes into the W2k bootloader.

So it does work, but in a most roundabout fashion.  Can anyone explain
to me why I have to hit F5 to reload the partition boot map?

Thanks!

				--*greywolf;

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, David Laight wrote:

# On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:15:48PM +0100, Michael Core wrote:
# > Hi,
# >
# > I'm using 1.5ZA and I've installed a new hard drive (Quantum Fireball Ict
# > 10,2 GB with U-DMA). As the other drive has only 1,2 GB and is rather
# > slow, I'd normally remove it. The problem is I cannot boot from the new
# > drive. I created mount points for / and /usr, copied all necessary file
# > and used fdisk to install the boot loader. When I boot my PC I see "F4:
# > NetBSD", hit enter and nothing happends but a "3" appears.
#
# Ok, error '3' means "sector 0 of the partition didn't contain 0xaa55
# as its last 2 bytes".
#
# At a guess you've forgotten to install the bootloader into the
# partition boot sectors (the first and third onward of the partition,
# in your case sectors 63 and 65+).
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