Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 07:17:28 -0800 (PST) From: jay.krell@cornell.edu To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: i386/14800: FreeBSD BootMgr not configurable (or at least no info) Message-ID: <19991109151728.6D7F014A06@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 14800 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: FreeBSD BootMgr not configurable (or at least no info) >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 9 07:20:06 PST 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jay Krell >Release: 3.3 >Organization: >Environment: Sorry, on NT. >Description: I'm somewhat interested in using the FreeBSD BootMgr to boot multiple OSes on multiple drivers on one machine. >How-To-Repeat: Install NT on a drive. Move the drive to a secondary controller. Install FreeBSDD to the new primary drive. Attempt to boot NT. (could also try Win98, Linux, a different version of FreeBSD, etc.) >Fix: I have drive trays, so I move the drives around. Other boot manager, including Lilo and NT's can probably handle this. NT's is poorly documented but the info on multibooting NT and Linux should work; Lilo is a hack, but perhaps well documented, I don't know, I've seen a lot of docs on it, but always just barely got by with the NT boot loader. Lilo is a hack, though kind of elegantly simple/small 'cause it knows nothing about any file systems, it just knows what blocks the kernel is on... >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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