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Originally Posted by velikij
I'm new to NetBSD (and this forum).
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Welcome!
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I want to make sure I don't override the MBR when doing this.
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Chapter 2 of the
NetBSD Guide should be the first document studied.
Chapter 3 is an example of stepping through the various installation steps. Following selection of language & keyboard type, the install script prompts for how NetBSD is to be installed. This is where you
can be dropped into an
fdisk(8) interface for editing the MBR partitions.
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When the installation is done, I expect to boot into Ubuntu and run update-grub, which should properly detect the NetBSD partition...
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I have never used grub2 as a bootloader, but from memory the general form of what needs to be added to grub's
menu.lst is something akin to the following:
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title NetBSD
root (hd0,6)
chainloader +1
There are two obvious things you should do before proceeding:
- Back-up any & all important data from all operating systems installed which is critical to retain.
- Research the specifics of grub's syntax further. I believe the pertinent manual for grub2 can be found at the following:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
I don't regularly use NetBSD, so I cannot give definitive answers to your questions. However, spending time in the search engine of your choice will likely provide more information.
Good luck.