From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 10: 5: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2235237B40A for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 74795 invoked by uid 100); 11 Sep 2001 17:05:00 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15262.17468.574031.430206@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:05:00 -0500 To: "Ryan Masse" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-os boot In-Reply-To: <120535628@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Ryan Masse 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. 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