On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:36:28AM +1100, ?o.O Jeremy O.o? wrote:
> Yes the boot selector is installed, however it is installed on the
> second hard drive (that's why telling the bios to boot the second hard
> drive first will put me into the nbsd boot selector). The bios is not
> a problem as I've installed Redhat and Slackware and the lilo that was
> installed worked fine.
> 
> The essence of the problem is that both operating systems (windows and
> nbsd) have their own boot selectors on the mbr of the hard drive they
> are installed. However their respective boot selectors fails to
> recognize the other operating system.
> 
> i.e. if I boot the first hard drive with windows on it ( i have a copy
> of the nbsd mbr in the first hard drive and I have edited the boot.ini
> to allow me to select this option) and try to select nbsd, the
> computer crashes and restarts.
> 
> If I boot the second hard drive, the nbsd boot selector does not
> recognize that there is a windows partition.
> 
> So right now when I to go to different operating systems, I have to
> make changes in the bios to boot the different hard drive.
> 
> I'm asking if there is any other way to boot both operating system
> without involving the bios. Or to get the boot selector of either
> operating system to recognize the other.

This is how someone managed to boot NetBSD from the NT boot loader.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1997/12/08/0015.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1997/12/08/0021.html

If you go to the netbsd website, www.netbsd.org, and do a search in the
'Search Mailing Lists' field, the results are usually helpful.  I
mention this as a resource you may not have known about.

-- 

Ian P. Thomas

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