[1354] in NetBSD-Development
Re: 2nd IDE bus, installation, boot floppies, boot loader
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Aug 2 16:55:16 1996
To: jmmikkel@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Aug 1996 16:43:29 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 16:51:59 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Then I wondered, how am I to boot to netbsd? Installing netbsd's
> boot loader, which as far as I could tell, can only be done via dos
> anyway (where should I be looking?) is not currently an acceptable
> answer.
NetBSD does not have its own boot loader like lilo; "the NetBSD boot
loader" per se lives in the NetBSD partition and runs after you
transfer control to that partition.
There are two separate tasks to consider:
* Selecting which partition to boot off of
* Loading and starting the kernel
Linux provides one program (lilo) which does both. With NetBSD, you
use a program like booteasy to do the first step, and then the NetBSD
bootloader to do the second step.
OS-BS 2.0 beta 8 should do what you need. It's in
/mit/netbsd/i386/utils. I have to run, but give it a try.
