Subject: GRUB, NTFS, and NetBSD
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/03/2002 17:16:23
I have a dual boot system with NetBSD-1.6 and Win2000
The Win2000 was setup using NTFS and begins at offset 63
The NetBSD partition starts at offset 16,768,080
I currently use a boot floppy to run MS-DOS and then dosboot -u wd0a:netbsd
Has anyone installed GRUB on a system like this before? I don't know a lot
about Win2000 / NT booting but my guess is that the Win2K boot code is
sitting at the beginning of the disk and if I load GRUB I will over-write
this boot code. Since GRUB doesn't understand NTFS and would need to
chainload Win2K I'm expecting the disk to be fubar'd if I try this since
the Win2K boot loader will have been over-written by GRUB.
Any ideas how I can get this system to boot to either Win2K or NetBSD
without using a floppy?
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