Subject: Re: Boot device confusion
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/21/2005 18:55:23
On Jun 21, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Allen Briggs wrote:
> Yes. This was one reason that I wanted to preserve the data that was
> already on a disk when Jason did the Promise ATA RAID support.
Indeed. When I wrote that code, I had a machine that had Win2k
installed on one partition of the "Promise host RAID" (i.e. software
RAID that the BIOS can also do for booting, etc.), and I wanted to
preserve that (dual boot NetBSD and Win2k).
-- thorpej