Date: Mon, 08 May 95 13:18:01 EDT From: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) To: dbaker@Concorde-Mail.NeoSoft.COM Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager with 3 OS/s Message-ID: <199505080535.PAA25259@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 7 May 1995 17:47:48 -0500 (CDT) you wrote: >> Brian> Use OS/2's fdisk to write the boot manager to your >> Brian> disk. It gives you a nicer display than FreeBSD's (menu >> Brian> selection, descriptive name of each partition, etc.). It >> Brian> can handle more than 2 OS's, whereas I've never tried >> Brian> FreeBSD's with more than two. >> >> I've got a system with MS-DOS, OS/2, and FreeBSD ... using FreeBSD's >> bootmugger. >> And it works Likewise. >How did you set it up? Install the FreeBSD mugger (I like 8) when you do your FreeBSD install, or later, it doesn't matter. When you install OS/2, stick it into an extended partition, and put the OS/2 bootmanager into a partition of its own. The FreeBSD mugger will see the OS/2 bootmanager as an OS/2 partition, so you can 'boot' it. Configure the OS/2 bootmanager to boot OS/2 as the default, with a timeout of 0 seconds, and it will rip straight into it. DOS should be installed in an 'ordinary' primary partition. I'd suggest doing it DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD, reconfigure OS/2 bootmanager. # Mike Smith # Software Engineer, Genesis Software # Adelaide Radar Systems/ATRAD # +61-8-267-3039
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199505080535.PAA25259>