Subject: Re: Boot Manager
To: Kenneth Freidank <kennethcf@earthlink.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/09/2005 15:00:58
Kenneth Freidank <kennethcf@earthlink.net> writes:
> Tim Jakobsen wrote:
>
>>Can the NetBSD boot selector be used to boot 2 different
>>operatingsystems from 2 different harddisks ?
>
> I could not get it to work, plus I feared replacing XP's boot selector
> since it seems to somehow hook into XP's files, and I didn't know what
> kind of problems I might have made for myself if an XP patch messed
> with the boot portion of XP.

There is nothing so large and magical about the boot stuff. I have XP
and NetBSD both running on the laptop I'm typing from right now -- it
works perfectly well. If XP changed the way booting worked, how would
the BIOS manage to boot it any more?

Perry