From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 21:40:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59D016A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:40:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mps10.plala.or.jp (c153126.vh.plala.or.jp [210.150.153.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795F143D3F for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:40:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp) Received: from msvc1.plala.or.jp ([172.23.8.209]) by mps10.plala.or.jp with SMTP id <20040719214018.IRKX7110.mps10.plala.or.jp@msvc1.plala.or.jp> for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:40:18 +0900 Received: ( 11712 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2004 06:40:18 +0900 X-SVCK: Received: from unknown (HELO mpb1.plala.or.jp) (172.23.8.16) by msvc1 with SMTP; 20 Jul 2004 06:40:17 +0900 Received: from trio.plala.or.jp ([219.25.148.126]) by mpb1.plala.or.jp with ESMTP id <20040719214017.JSBX19716.mpb1.plala.or.jp@trio.plala.or.jp>; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:40:17 +0900 Message-ID: <40FC4165.8090901@trio.plala.or.jp> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:47:17 +0900 From: Eitarou Kamo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; ja-JP; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: thierry@herbelot.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <200407191211.i6JCB7fY005294@bleep.craftncomp.com> <200407192146.52653.thierry@herbelot.com> <40FC3286.9000701@trio.plala.or.jp> <200407192308.48587.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <200407192308.48587.thierry@herbelot.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.8.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Grub capabilities (Re: Multiple Bootable FreeBSD partitions?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:40:20 -0000 Hi, Thierry Herbelot wrote: >Le Monday 19 July 2004 22:43, Eitarou Kamo a =E9crit : > > =20 > >>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? >> =20 >> > >one very good point of grub is that it allows booting from a "logical"=20 >partition inside an "extended" partition : the number of bootable OSes i= s=20 >therefore un-limited, as log as they can live in an extended partition (= that=20 >is, none of the BSD's for now ; you may also have for example up to 3x6=3D= 18=20 >versions of FreeBSD alongside your numerous versions of Linux or Zin$$) > > TfH > > =20 > If space of HDD allows and linux can create next extended partition by installing one after another on extended partition, Grub may have bootable partition infinitely like reflexive loop. If so, You may be able to have all OSes being in this world even on a laptop. I don't know if it is worth or not though. But it's amasing. Eitarou --=20 =20 *********************** Eitarou Kamo Tel. +81 75 7035997 Fax +81 75 7035997 VoIP 050 10585997(domestic only) e-mail e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp For business: Feel free to mail me(above), please. Donation http://www.PayPal.Com GPG FingerPrint: 032D FDF9 D27B 23F7 9A81 BF4C 626C FBAA BC3A 9895=20 ************************************************************************ =20