Subject: OS Loader
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Leuzinger <christoph.leuzinger@westworks.ch>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/18/2000 15:19:13
Hello again,
I wanted to ask you about some problems concerning the selection of the OS
before booting.
I've got two scenarios:
1.) Win98, Linux, NetBSD
There is a machine with Win98, Linux and NetBSD on it. Unfortunately I no
longer can access Linux, because after the installation of NetBSD's boot
manager, Linux won't boot no more (the boot manager returns "3"). And now that
I had to reinstall Win (once more...), the Win-Setup overwrote the boot sector
information, so that I'm only able to boot NetBSD from the floppy boot disk.
I tried fdisk -B, but nothing changed.
2.) Win98, extended partition, NetBSD
On another machine, I first installed Windows (about 2GB), an extended FAT32
partition (~4GB) and then NetBSD (~6GB) with its boot manager. But whatever I
try to boot, I only get the answer "3".
I tried OSL2000 (http://www.osloader.com/), but didn't help ("no OS found"; I
think, they dont support NetBSD).
Any suggestions? Is it possible to resolve this problem using NetBSD's boot
manager, or do I have to use another one?
TIA, Chris.
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