From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 2: 5:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [209.53.238.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB20437B406 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.53.238.2] (helo=auth.qcislands.net) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31 #2) id 15gjUC-0004p2-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:05:40 -0700 Received: from ccstore by auth.qcislands.net with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15gjUD-0004cQ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:05:41 -0700 Received: from freebsd by dick.ccstores.com with local (Exim 3.31 #2) id 15gjO3-0003u4-00; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:59:19 -0700 From: freebsd@ccstores.com (Jim Pazarena) To: rmasse@mastery.ca Subject: re:multi-os boot Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: SCO Shell Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 1:59:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: 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 >Subject: multi-os boot >Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:29:22 -0400 >From: "Ryan Masse" >To: "FreeBSD-Questions" >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 System Commander can multi boot multiple disks, and they do NOT have to be primary partitions. -- Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@qcislands.net http://www.qcislands.net/paz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message