[43] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: OS-BS vs. LILO, 3c509
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtkohl@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 7 22:19:08 1995
From: jtkohl@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 22:18:41 -0500
To: ericding@MIT.EDU, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[41] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric <ericding@MIT.EDU> writes:
Eric> 1) I've currently got DOS on my first hard drive, and want to put
Eric> NetBSD on my second drive. Is there a boot manager like LILO for
Eric> Linux (such as OS-BS??) that will allow me to manage both?
Greg> According to some notes by John Kohl, booteasy will transfer boot to
Greg> the second drive, and so will OS-BS 2.0 beta.
Yep, I use os-bs-2.0beta8 every time I reboot at home. I highly
recommend it. I boot OS-BS 2.0beta from my IDE drive #0, and have it
switch to boot NetBSD off of my SCSI disk #0. Here are the notes I've
written down (see /afs/sipb/project/iap/netbsd/jtk/boot-stuff):
* All the boot tools discussed here are findable under
/afs/sipb/project/netbsd/i386/utils/* . You can use the "unzip" program
in the SIPB locker to uncompress the zip files, and then copy the output
onto a DOS floppy diskette using the "mtools" programs in the consult
locker.
* os-bs-2.0beta8.exe: beta-test 2.0 (works fine--I've used it daily).
wizzy boot-time menu, takes 4 extra blocks on disk (if DOS is your first
partition, this is not a problem--those sectors are unused). Can boot
directly from a second disk drive (although your NetBSD boot blocks will
need modification to support this if you're switching controller types,
such as IDE for BIOS drive 0, SCSI for BIOS drive 1--ask
<jtkohl@mit.edu> for details.) Otherwise quite similar to os-bs135.exe.
==John
