[1356] in NetBSD-Development
Re: 2nd IDE bus, installation, boot floppies, boot loader
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jmmikkel@MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 2 18:13:22 1996
From: jmmikkel@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:11:28 -0400
To: yoav@MIT.EDU
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199608022122.RAA14817@i-see-everything-twice.MIT.EDU> (message from Yoav Yerushalmi on Fri, 02 Aug 1996 17:21:59 EDT)
No, I don't want OS-BS. I said so, though evidently not clearly
enough, in my previous message. However, with Greg's message, I think
I can describe better the problem at hand.
> 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.
I want that second step. Greg's comments helped me understand what I
read 3 or 4 times:
> 5/ Boot2 asks the user for a boot device, partition and filename, and then
> loads the MBR of the selected device. This may or may not be the device
> which was originally used to boot the first MBR. The partition table
> of the new MBR is searched for a 386bsd partition, and if one is
> found,
I want that. I want to put the "MBR of the selected device", the "new
MBR" on my netbsd partition. Is it already there? If not, I see two
problems, 1.) I don't have an install floppy 2.) I don't know how to
create it. If so, I'd appreciate having had _something_ tell me
so. "Just use OS-BS" doesn't tell me that, and it's what all the docs
say.
Of course, this step still requires the BIOS recognize my hard
disk... So I can't test it until someone convinces me to take my
entire computer apart. There isn't any sort of boot loader which is
horribly SCSI-incompatible which I can use?
Joanne
