From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 16: 6:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0043C37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F9E43E8A for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-63.214.217.48.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.217.48] helo=sparky) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 180roP-0003M7-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:06:17 -0700 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, wolfgang Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:06:49 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <200210131203.55344.GeneralP.Fault@gmx.net> Message-Id: Subject: Re: Multiboot questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.05 build 1140 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 10/13/2002 6:03:55 AM, wolfgang wrote: >i have a computer with 3 OS's on it: win98 on ad0s1, freebsd 4.7 on ad0s3 and >linux on ad2s2. ad2 is too big to be handled correctly by the bios, so there >is a disk manager installed to the master boot record of ad0. Arrgh. Disk managers (a/k/a "disk manglers" for good reason) tend to really screw things up IMO. Do I assume correctly that there is no updated BIOS available that would see all of ad2? >i boot linux via windows' config.sys and loadlin.exe without problems. i tried >to do the same with fbsdboot.exe with freebsd, but that doesnt seem to work, You're correct. That won't work. >so i now use a floppy with the uniload boot loader from >http://www.simon.org.ua/uniload/ to boot freebsd. >each time freebsd has run, the freebsd slice ad0s3 is set active, but freebsd >won't boot from it: Error loading OS. >1. can i change that so that the freebsd slice is fully bootable? maybe by >installing grub to that slice? i would prefer that solution since i could >then use grub also to be able to boot the other OS's. >2. is there a way to boot freebsd from DOS, how exactly would i use >fbsdboot.exe? > >regards, >wolfgang The FreeBSD boot loader (booteasy) will allow you to boot FreeBSD, Win98, and Linux. If you'd like to use it, just install it on both hard drives, using a FreeBSD boot floppy or CD-ROM to boot into FreeBSD, then install booteasy from the /stand/sysinstall menu or boot0cfg. Or you can install grub if that's your preference - it should work nicely to boot all 3 OSs. Read the grub documentation *carefully* to see how to set up your system to do this. To summarize: You can install the FreeBSD boot loader, or grub from FreeBSD or Linux, to do what you want. The only methods that *won't* work are the Win98 and DOS-based methods you've tried or asked about. Proviso: If neither booteasy nor grub works, it could be a problem caused by the disk "mangler." Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message