Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:42:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Zeta Leung <zetaleung@yahoo.com> To: Ryan Masse <rmasse@mastery.ca>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: multi-os boot Message-ID: <20010911024259.9874.qmail@web11505.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <001101c13a69$a08a7490$3200a8c0@78kw954>
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Maybe you can take a look at Smart BootManager. It's home page is: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/. It can boot from 2 disks, but I don't know whether it can handle SCSI well. Since it can be installed on a floppy, the bottom line is that it won't hurt. Victor --- Ryan Masse <rmasse@mastery.ca> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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