On Sunday I installed NetBSD 3.0 on my laptop, an HP Compaq nc6220. I didn’t have a recent copy of -current available, so my plan was to install 3.0 and then upgrade once I’d downloaded a fresh -current. As GRUB was already installed in the MBR, I decided to use it as my bootloader.

The NetBSD installation went very smoothly, and I installed into a primary partition that I’d left empty when installing Debian GNU/Linux (/dev/hda3 in Linux terminology). Once the installation was complete, I booted into Linux and edited my /boot/grub/menu.list to add NetBSD. I added the following entries:

title NetBSD 3.0
root (hd0,2,a)
rootnoverify (hd0,2,a)
chainloader +1

Once that was done, NetBSD appeared in my GRUB menu and booted like a charm. More on my NetBSD laptop experiences in a later post…

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