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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!inews.intel.com!xws181.sc.intel.com!mwilley From: mwilley@xws181.sc.intel.com (Mark F Willey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Dual Boot? Date: 19 Jun 1995 16:37:10 GMT Organization: Intel Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3s493m$sle@inews.sc.intel.com> References: <3rmo3u$6eg@ussenterprise.ufp.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 143.183.32.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <3rmo3u$6eg@ussenterprise.ufp.org>, bicknell@vt.edu (Leo Bicknell) writes: |> |> I have a Thinkpad that I recently installed NetBSD on. |> I just completed a DOS installation on the same disk. They are |> co-existing happily, but I can not get dual boot to work. |> |> If I install a boot manager (os-bs from the NetBSD tree, |> or BootEasy from FreeBSD) they see both the DOS and NetBSD |> partitions and put them in the menu. When I try to boot |> only the DOS partition works though, selecting NetBSD does |> nothing. I have used OS-BS on many systems with no problem. Do you have the latest beta? (2.??) Also, be sure that your disklabel is in the proper place and you offset your partitions, if required. Mark -- Mark Willey - Intel P6c DLA - (408) 765-3913 - mwilley@mipos2.intel.com