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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.oz.net!news.sensemedia.net!news.scruz.net!garlic.com!j.hollister.garlic.com!(null) From: (null)@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Rick Dante) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.freebsd.misc Subject: Changing BSD partition to boot with Boot Manager (OS/2) Date: 4 Jul 1995 19:08:30 GMT Organization: Newsreaders Anonymous Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3tc3je$oh6@garlic.com> Reply-To: rdante@garlic.com NNTP-Posting-Host: a.hollister.garlic.com I've got a 1 SCSI hard drive and 2 IDE drives. When I got the SCSI drive 2 months ago I upgraded to NetBSD 1.0 and dedicated the SCSI drive to it. The IDE drives held MSDOG and WINDOZE. To boot netbsd I enter my cmos and switch drive 1 from the IDE parameters to SCSI and the SCSI drive maps right in as the boot device. IHere's my problem. I just installed OS/2 Warp last night rearranging my IDE partitions a little bit so I can have an unstacked DOS FAT as drive C, two stacked FATS as D and E and an HPFS as F. This is across the two IDEs and I boot OS/2 from the second drive's HPFS partition with the Bootmanager. It looks like it's possible to add my netbsd sd0a parition from disk 3 (the SCSI drive) to the boot menu of OS/2's boot manager if the partition were labeled bootable in OS/2's fdisk. Hindsight is 20/20 and if I were installing netbsd after OS/2 I would have created the netbsd boot partition with OS/2 fdisk but this is not the case. CAN I CHANGE my netbsd root partition to appear bootable by OS/2 bootmanager by twiddling a few bits in that disk's partition table without hosing the root filesystem. And if so does anyone know how to do this ? Thanks a lot. Rick Dante rdante@garlic.com