Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:05:00 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Ryan Masse" <rmasse@mastery.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-os boot Message-ID: <15262.17468.574031.430206@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <120535628@toto.iv>
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Ryan Masse <rmasse@mastery.ca> types: > 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?'. Grub - /usr/ports/sysutils/grub - can do all of this. It does require files in a disk partition, but it can use any file system that it understands, not just fat. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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