From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 23:33:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web13606.mail.yahoo.com (web13606.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2040A37B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 23:33:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bzdik@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010526063305.36147.qmail@web13606.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.16.193.228] by web13606.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 25 May 2001 23:33:05 PDT Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:33:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD Subject: Re: Triple booting -- HELP To: kstewart@urx.com, Bill Schoolcraft Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3B0C5F36.FAD1F749@urx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --- Kent Stewart wrote: > I had a similar problem. I wanted to add Linux but if FreeBSD > couldn't be > the 2nd partiton and still boot Linux, then, Linux was going to be > removed. > I still don't have a Linux system. I had to have the FreeBSD / > partition > located in front of 8.4 GB since I was installing 4.0. I have two > systems > with the large freebsd slice located after the dos extended partition > and > two more that have the freebsd slice in front of the extended > partition. I > have a version of Windows 2000 booting from the extended partition in > 2 of > the 4. I only have 3 partitions on these drives. They are typically > 30GB > drives. > > I use NTLDR to boot FreeBSD. I use /boot/boot1 to actually do the > boot. To > do this, you have to copy boot1 onto your C-drive as bootsect.bsd and > add > that to the NT boot.ini. NTLDR has no problem booting FreeBSD > regardless of > the relative position on the HD. I have a convention that no OS goes > on my > C-drive. It is strictly for booting and data transfer. > > It has been very painless to setup and use. > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA I have : 1st hdd: 1st part: primary WunderBomb Pro 2nd part:primary Same Adv Server 3rd : primary FreeBSD 4th: extended with 3 logical inside with Progeny Debian 2nd hdd: two primaries for Solaris 8 IA: one 10 MB boot x86 and the second - UFS sliced internally. Everything is booted by Progenian GRUB. The only caveat: Solaris UFS is hex-type 82 which is the same as Linux swap, so installed Solaris the last. Edit the /boot/grub/menu.ls file to boot the rest __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message