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From: rdante@garlic.com(Rick Dante)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Changing BSD partition to boot with Boot Manager (OS/2)
Date: 4 Jul 1995 19:16:27 GMT
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Reply-To: rdante@garlic.com
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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. 

Here'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