Subject: Re: boot selector problem.
To: Alan C. Horn <deorth@mono.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/18/2000 15:21:12
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 01:57:31AM +0100, Alan C. Horn wrote:
> 
> I would like to use the netbsd mbr_bootsel bootselector code to select
> between NetBSD and windows.
> 
> The windows OS is on wd0, and the NetBSD OS is on sd0.
> 
> Installing mbr_bootsel on wd0 results in only being able to boot windows
> as far as I can see. Is there any way to install mbr_bootsel on wd0 and
> have it take options to boot from either disks partitions ?

If you have a second disk recognised by the BIOS (that means you need to have
a bios for your SCSI adapter) then mbr_bootsel should propose you to boot
from the second disk (you may have to configure it with 'fdisk -B' for this).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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