Howto: Dual-boot NetBSD
The NetBSD Project
Status: Closed
Time to complete: 96 hrs
Mentors: Martin Husemann, Julian Coleman, Julian Fagir
Having NetBSD not only as the single operating system, even if only for trying, is a common setup.
Of course you can dual-boot NetBSD with its internal bootloader as well as with grub and grub2.
These possibilities should be documented, and a howto how to dual-boot NetBSD should be created, for any scenario (NetBSD installed before main OS, and main OS installed before NetBSD).
Uploaded Work
| File name/URL | File size | Date submitted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| netbsd-dualboot.html | 3.5 KB | November 27 2012 13:32 UTC | |
| netbsd-dualboot.html | 3.2 KB | November 28 2012 08:25 UTC | |
| netbsd-dualboot.txt | 2.6 KB | November 29 2012 18:25 UTC | |
| netbsd-dualboot_v2.txt | 3.1 KB | November 30 2012 13:52 UTC |
I would like to work on this task.
This task has been assigned to Jai Luthra. You have 96 hours to complete this task, good luck!
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I have made some changes in the file, steps to add NetBSD in linux's grub2 list are added.
Please see the new file (http://goo.gl/hTMPj) uploaded on November 28 2012 08:25 UTC for the review.
This is exactly what we wanted, just one step should be elaborated a bit more: If you already installed NetBSD and then install another operating system, but you want to keep the NetBSD bootloader.
Is it possible to configure the bootloader then to boot that new operating system, and is it even possible? Please describe what you have to configure in the NetBSD bootloader, and add an example for this.
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Yep, this is nice. Thank you very much for the article!
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