Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:48:42 +0100 From: Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com> To: Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting more than 4 OSes from a hard disk? Message-ID: <44D8C06A.4000207@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060808154003.78545.qmail@web35611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060808154003.78545.qmail@web35611.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Dear all, > > I was wondering if the 4 primary parition booting > limit still exists. Is it possible to have > > Windoze > Linux > FreeBSD > OpenBSD > NetBSD > > on the same box in such a way that we can boot into > any of them? > > I am particularly interested in the x86 arch with IDE > disks. I think this is possible on other archs with > SCSI. > > What boot manager am I supposed to use? Does it > require setting something on the BIOS? Does FreeBSD > support booting from a point way off the first sector? > > Thanks. > > regards, > Girish > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I *think* GAG can do this, though I have never actually personally tried it. If I ever use a boot loader though, GAG is my first choice. It's incredibly simple to install and configure. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ -- Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com> BSc (Hons), Computer Science
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