From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 18 13:54:20 2007 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 2CDBE16A46B for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:54:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mr.hyro@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E543813C4B4 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:54:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mr.hyro@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1388248wxd for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:54:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Hx/Az/JGmWKvUOsaT1LzKmEpPbtSnoQPBMMCw9zZlhA=; b=I/D2GCUXuuTQ0xCmhnNwuYmTFOl9b1+XJ4g5Sj4/09Z3efwOz3SLDAdtpl3YArhUvsokU6q9OI5rzV3gRgCC+z6020xKeE/zJHUPXBQGYbZN7tyrDxcJaex01enlGFVgbVLqIfBLLy8Y9ST32URjANbUQIQfy+NpMnmgSJueq8I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=iAyHURv484+c4fQH0HgijawveEjOcNKB0yo2IFoEG6tBojqi+UspVDrY0//QJqYCtEKg4O2JJRQEWS24GC3KqgGUKOc1hWLC2BdOmifSOnsw1CfAq5vkaBb5MozNAjMZsO6E/cJxBhEqkS42wCfK7iByIPJwnM5EKFt4a5jk/FM= Received: by 10.78.157.19 with SMTP id f19mr3563901hue.1190123641337; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.185.7 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <24393ae80709180654v2822876al4517ce8a9dfd9c33@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:54:01 -0400 From: "Andrey Shuvikov" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: Multi BSD boot loader 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, 18 Sep 2007 13:54:20 -0000 On 9/18/07, Joshua Isom wrote: > I've brought back to life a P3 I got at a school auction years back to > use for testing software under various operating systems(presently all > bsd) on i386. My main "server" is FreeBSD/amd64. The P3 has a 10 gig > hard drive I'm not intending to upgrade(unless I buy an sata hard drive > and find that the bootloader works for atapi sata hard drives in 7.0). > I've currently partitioned it into four partitions, with FreeBSD, > OpenBSD, and DragonFlyBSD. The fourth is unused at the moment, and I > left it open for a fourth system to test on, but I partitioned it as > "FreeBSD". Here comes the problem. The boot menu currently looks like > this. > > F1: FreeBSD > F2: BSD > F3: FreeBSD > F4: FreeBSD > Based on my experience FreeBSD loader (slice boot-sector) tries to load the system from the first FreeBSD (A5) slice it can find. So even is you press F3 you will load FreeBSD rather than DragonFlyBSD. I resolved this issue by installing GRUB and temporarily changing the slice type of the slices I didn't want to boot from. In addition you can edit menu.lst before rebooting to specify which entry should be booted next.