From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 10 19:30:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from comp1.mastery.ca (ptr-207-54-105-70.ptr.terago.ca [207.54.105.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A4637B425 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:30:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 78kw954 (dyn216-8-128-177.ADSL.mnsi.net [216.8.128.177]) (authenticated) by comp1.mastery.ca (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8B2U7501058 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:30:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rmasse@mastery.ca) Message-ID: <001101c13a69$a08a7490$3200a8c0@78kw954> From: "Ryan Masse" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: multi-os boot Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:29:22 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message