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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:29:22 -0400
From:      "Ryan Masse" <rmasse@mastery.ca>
To:        "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   multi-os boot
Message-ID:  <001101c13a69$a08a7490$3200a8c0@78kw954>

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I know this subject has been before this list many times, but this situation
is one that i can't find that has been covered in previous posts. I want to
point out that references on freebsd.org to the multi-os page are broken.

The following are the specs on this box;

Build/Test box with 2 vers. of FBSD and win2000 spanning accross IDE and
SCSI devices.

What i would like to do is;

segment off the IDE drive into 3 sections and use the SCSI drive for
win2000.
1. FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE
2. FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE
3. Shared swap

I had gotten to the point of all the OSs installed according to the above
layout, but was unable to find a bootloader to manage all the operating
system spannned accross the 2 drives. In searching for a boot manager i
found a couple that required a primary fat partition as the boot device. So
i formated the IDE drive included a 50M FAT32 partition and left the free
space for the 2 FBSD environments.

As i write this email i'm waiting on the formatting... my question to you is
'Is there a better way of going about this then what i am doing?'.

I am prepared to wipeout, reinstall anything upon any intellegent suugestion
from this list. Thanks in advance for your help.

Ryan



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