>Number:         13174
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       i386-FAQ booting 2nd disk from NT's boot menu
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 12 02:04:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ian K. Erickson
>Release:        NetBSD 1.5
>Organization:
	Cowles Publishing; Spokane, WA
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD ian-dsl-1-86 1.5 NetBSD 1.5 (GENERIC) #1: Sun Nov 19 21:42:11 MET 2000 fvdl@sushi:/work/trees/netbsd-1-5/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

It's an ordinary PC with 2 ATA hard drives, 4 gig each. NT4 was installed on
the first disk with the 2nd for file, both NTFS. The second disk was unassigned 
its drive letter and reformatted with NetBSD 1.5. So NT is on my wd0, and 
NetBSD is installed on wd1.

>Description:
	I installed NetBSD 1.5 on my second hard drive. I can only boot into
	it with a rescue floppy. My 1st disk has NT4, with an NTFS C:\. The
	FAQ implies how to boot NetBSD from a 2nd disk from NT's boot menu,
	but the directions are incomplete and don't seem to work.

	The i386-FAQ says how to boot
	NetBSD from a 2nd partition on NT's boot disk using the menu, but when
	it describes how to do it when NetBSD is on the 2nd drive it says
	"you have to recompile the boot block and install it ... with some
	minor tweaking in /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/boot".

	That directory/path doesn't exist in the 1.5 source (I installed all
	the ...src.tgz packages in the source directory on ftp.netbsd.org).
	It also doesn't really give you a clue how to tweak the files mentioned,
	if you found them. I searched the source with grep, but I didn't find
	anything like a #define to (un)comment to make the change.

	I tried a couple experiments with dd'ing the boot block of rwd1a to 
	a DOS disk, copying it to my C:\ and adding a line to it in C:\boot.ini
	but I got an error like "No NetBSD" that locked the machine solid.
	Control-Alt-Delete would not reboot the PC.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Take a PC with 2 hard disks (ATA). Install NT on it. Install NetBSD on 
	the 2nd disk. Try the directions in the i386-FAQ under "Adding NetBSD
	to the Windows NT boot menu". Unless you know how to recompile the 
	bootblock with the source changes alluded to, you need a rescue floppy 
	to boot back into NetBSD.

>Fix:
	The fix hinted at in the FAQ might work (if you knew what to tweak)
	but there's an easier fix that should be in the FAQ. I used the free 
	program BOOTPART.EXE from NT to snag NetBSD's boot block on wd1a to
	a file and add a "NetBSD" entry to NT's boot menu (C:\boot.ini). 
	Now I can boot into NetBSD from NT's boot menu, instead of having to 
	use the rescue floppy. I didn't try OSBS, but I didn't want a solution
	that could comprimise the boot process of NT itself.

	Bootpart is at http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
	It's "postcard-ware". I guess I owe him a postcard.

	Here's what I did (after installing BSD)
	- booted into NT
	- downloaded bootpart.zip and unzipped it to C:\bootpart\
	- opened a command shell 
	- cd C:\bootpart
	- bootpart 
	- (showed the list of partitions. NT was # 0:, NetBSD was 1:)
	- bootpart 1 netbsd "NetBSD 1.5"
	- bootpart list
	- (shows NetBSD using the new file C:\bootpart\netbsd to load 1:)

	C:\boot.ini basically has a line pointing to C:\bootpart\netbsd
	NT's boot menu has a "NetBSD 1.5" entry which boots NetBSD.

	The FAQ should have this in it since it's so straight-forward. You
	might be able to include bootpart.exe in the install utilities. People
	new to NetBSD are probably like me going to try it on a 2nd disk.

		

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