On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:20:48PM +0000, g.mcgarry@ieee.org wrote:
> >Description:
> The i386 boot selector was working fine at and before NetBSD 1.6.  It doesn't now.
> 
> I have NetBSD 2.0 installed in the first MBR partition on wd0 and Windows installed in the first MBR partition on wd1.  The old boot selector would allow me to assign the names "NetBSD" and "Windows" to the F1 and F5 keys to boot from these partitions.
> 
> No it has the following problems:
> 
> 1) It doesn't display any text on the display and sits there waiting until the timeout expires.
> 2) None of the F* keys work (it prints "Error?" to the display), except for _F2_, which boots from the NetBSD partition.  

for 2), now the boot code uses Fn to boot from the nth disk, and n (numerical
key, 0-9) to boot from the nth partition.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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