Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 22:37:51 -0500 From: Steve Hill <sjhill@cotw.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Creating a system to boot 4 different OS types. Message-ID: <3931E60F.A97F7B70@cotw.com>
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Greetings.
Well, I am getting ready to attempt a quad-boot system. I wish to boot
one of the following configurations:
First CONFIG:
- WinNT
- FreeBSD
- Linux
- NetBSD
Second CONFIG:
- WinNT
- FreeBSD
- Linux
- OpenBSD
I am still oscillating between OpenBSD/NetBSD, anyway....I am currently dual
booting WinNT and Linux. I found documentation to put Linux and FreeBSD
together. The two or three main issues for me are:
1) Choosing the right bootloader. I believe the WinNT OS loader would work,
but I am not completely sure about LILO for booting the above 4 OSes.
2) Since I cannot place a *BSD slice in an extended partition, it appears
I will have to do something like (sorry for using Linux device naming
scheme):
/dev/hda1 WinNT
/dev/hda2 Linux
/dev/hda3 BSD/386 (FreeBSD)
/dev/hda4 BSD/386 (OpenBSD or NetBSD)
I think this should work. The only thing is that one of the BSD slices
will need to share its swap space with Linux, which is not a problem.
3) I guess the stuff in (2) should work. Another question would be if the
swap partition in one of the BSD slices can be shared with the another
BSD variant (i.e. swap space in FreeBSD slice '/dev/hda3' can be used by
NetBSD or OpenBSD slice '/dev/hda4')?
I searched, I read but did not find all of the information. I am holding off
posting to the other two BSD lists until I hear (hopefully) something back
from this list. TIA.
-Steve
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