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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: Any BootEasy users out there? Message-ID: <1995Oct26.103104.6735@wavehh.hanse.de> Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg References: <46n9qp$7m0@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 10:31:04 GMT Lines: 27 jwh@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com writes: >I'm trying to get BootEasy 1.7 to work.. >Primary Drive - DOS >Secondary Drive - NetBSD >I want to use BootEasy to either boot the DOS drive or the NetBSD drive. >B.E. detects the partition ID on the DOS drive as #1. >B.E. detects the partition ID on the NetBSD drive as #4. >I go ahead with the install. And on boot up, the DOS drive will bootup >fine. But the NetBSD drive does not. It just spins the drive and >keeps cycling through the menu upon keypress. Any ideas on how to get >this to boot? This sounds like booting problems due to partition layout that doesn't match what the BIOS thinks the drive's layout is. I assume your NetBSD disk boots when installed as first disk. Maybe your secondary drive uses other geometry translation schemes (other controller etc.)? I use NetBSD/i386 on a second SCSI drive using the FreeBSD bootmanager without problems. Maybe try that. Martin