[1355] in NetBSD-Development
Re: 2nd IDE bus, installation, boot floppies, boot loader
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Fri Aug 2 17:24:09 1996
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jmmikkel@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Aug 1996 16:51:59 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 17:21:59 EDT
From: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Err.. I'll try and complete for greg.
What you need to do is first install a boot-partition
selector (os-bs is good) which lives on the HD that is initially
looked at for booting (presumably your primary IDE drive).
When the MBR is read, this program is run, and it (if installed
correctly) chooses which partition you will jump into to load
your OS. In this partition lives the NetBSD or DOS bootloader
which goes about loading your OS.
Install Os-BS. point it at all the partitions you want to boot
from (Windows '95 and NT present a problem here, because
they don't work like that) and good luck...
-- yoav
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