Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:08:48 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: Eitarou Kamo <e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp> Cc: wjw@withagen.nl Subject: Grub capabilities (Re: Multiple Bootable FreeBSD partitions?) Message-ID: <200407192308.48587.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <40FC3286.9000701@trio.plala.or.jp> References: <200407191211.i6JCB7fY005294@bleep.craftncomp.com> <200407192146.52653.thierry@herbelot.com> <40FC3286.9000701@trio.plala.or.jp>
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Le Monday 19 July 2004 22:43, Eitarou Kamo a écrit : > Me too. WinXP, RedHat, FreeBSD-4.10 and Solaris8 live > in my laptop. And RedHat has 2 kernels bootable. So I have > 5 OSes bootable. If 2 linux live in dos basic partition each other > and each linux create extend partition, is it possible to create > 10 bootable partition with grub? one very good point of grub is that it allows booting from a "logical" partition inside an "extended" partition : the number of bootable OSes is therefore un-limited, as log as they can live in an extended partition (that is, none of the BSD's for now ; you may also have for example up to 3x6=18 versions of FreeBSD alongside your numerous versions of Linux or Zin$$) TfH
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