On 30 September 2015 at 23:47, Ottavio Caruso
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I used to dual boot Windows 7 and NetBSD.
>
> This is my fdisk:
>
>
> Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 155061, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
>
Date:Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:47:38 +0100
From:Ottavio Caruso
Message-ID:
| At least can anybody advise if I can mark the partition active from
| within NetBSD?
Yes,
Date:Thu, 1 Oct 2015 19:38:03 +
From:Ottavio Caruso
Message-ID:
On 1 October 2015 at 08:43, Robert Elz wrote:
> Ottavio: Use the (NetBSD) fdisk, have it update the mbr boot, and install the
> boot selector, you'll know you're doing the right one when it asks for a label
> for each partition (a boot name). Don't change geometries, or
On 1 October 2015 at 13:24, Robert Elz wrote:
> | Would "fdisk -B wd0" give me the option to select a bootable partition?
>
> Yes. Just do that and install the bootselector, and you'll be back to
> dual boot.
Sorry for being pedantic Robert,
you said "just do that" and
from MLH:
> I have no idea if it is related, but at least on both of my Netbsd
> 7 systems, both amd64 and i386, installboot appears to destroy the
> bootblock on at least the usb drives I have tried, rendering those
> drives unbootable. I ran out of expendible external drives and
> really don't
Date:Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:41:51 -0700
From:Andy Ruhl
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Ottavio Caruso
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I used to dual boot Windows 7 and NetBSD.
>
> This is my fdisk:
>
>
> Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 155061, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
>
> Hello,
>
> I used to dual boot Windows 7 and NetBSD.
...
> Now the usb drive is unbootable, therefore I can only access NetBSD.
I have no idea if it is related, but at least on both of my Netbsd
7 systems, both amd64 and i386, installboot appears to destroy the
bootblock on at least the usb