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From: bicknell@vt.edu (Leo Bicknell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Dual Boot?
Date: 14 Jun 1995 09:27:26 -0400
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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 am able to stick a bootable NetBSD floppy in and then
tell it to boot from "hd(0,a)/netbsd" and NetBSD comes up just fine.
I have also played with different partition table arrangements
to no avail.
Could anyone give me some pointers on how to get this dual
boot thing working?
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