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Old 28th March 2011
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Originally Posted by nihonto View Post
Hi there,

today, I've tried to install NetBSD 5.1 on an external USB drive. The third attempt to install the OS finally went through the installation process till its end.

Then I configured Grub2 on the internal HDD to start NetBSD from the external drive. The boot process starts but then suddenly stops (not necessarily at the same position!). After some minutes this message appears:



Think, it was a bad idea to install NetBSD to an external drive, wasn't it?
A small question. How did you get grub2 configured to load NetBSD? Any particular search terms or handbook page in particular that I could use to get grub2 set for loading netbsd?
Thanks.
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