From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 12:10:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BDB106564A for ; Tue, 10 May 2011 12:10:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A83A8FC18 for ; Tue, 10 May 2011 12:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so7066519bwz.13 for ; Tue, 10 May 2011 05:10:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=JTorX/viL8fGjk0/MNi+zcvbfgP3TWpZMO3yWtP1bc4=; b=C8mRf1zFTEOXCe8MEqG/iqMSwbgscWTBjQ9kJQqXWvVwkrFAuFjdmh/SZy0mHA9LVp WGX7wpcyDe3wmcE9im9ht2UO7RGWjwM1TiYwChK14CoQjq7m3kUPXZHMcBGYjRGUUrb3 sLwLcYrIqPcGp9jjBQyQoWHjjDTXK8Jk+HtWM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=F03lStaQnnIpIfTNhIM6xL6ckdpYJIBGzSkGEgoTXsDT3J2IHBaDDGatCT5OlpurIn 3gV19HzMJTMifPICjUhpCpfRdWF7/Slll1hNkGdRkpLSOYNCRVW1PLnV+9/pNpGuJsAu PEa/IiCQJL4fDs4833RAtVmn3zLAs+B/D/LJ0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.205.82.197 with SMTP id ad5mr3298448bkc.80.1305029457527; Tue, 10 May 2011 05:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.3.217 with HTTP; Tue, 10 May 2011 05:10:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DC8ECEF.1040108@home.nl> References: <4DC791D9.10306@home.nl> <4DC8ECEF.1040108@home.nl> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 07:10:57 -0500 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: Roelof Wobben Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootloader problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:10:59 -0000 Roelof, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > Hello, > > Nobody who can help me. > > Roelof > > > > Op 9-5-2011 9:03, Roelof Wobben schreef: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have two disks, one of 80G with Win7, and one of 60G with at this moment >> Opensuse and Minix. >> >> Now I want to switch from Opensuse to FreeBSD. >> On the first disk Opensuse there is grub installed . >> >> What is the best way to tell the installer what bootloader I need, so all >> three will start? It is difficult setup and windows 7 will complicated things. There are several ways to do it, but it is hard. Thus many my shy away from responding :( Here's a section of handbook on bootloader http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html Problem(s) with triple booting examples http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=23572 http://forums.freebsd.org:8080/showthread.php?t=19440 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-distributions-5/triple-booting-win-linux-freebsd-356467/ Hope this will help in some way, but in case you install three OSes and only able to access 2, try to use a Plop/GaG/grub4dos live disk to be able to boot the other OS and try to experiment a bit. I am not expert so you may decide to *not trust* my advice. I had difficult time booting FreeBSD and windows vista and could not succeed in an efficient manner :( Regards, Antonio