Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 17:43:20 -0700 (PDT) From: David Yeske <dyeske@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual booting Message-ID: <20010604004320.3545.qmail@web13509.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106031635190.52501-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
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I suggest grub for your situation. Grub can boot FreeBSD via /boot/loader or it can boot the kernel directly. It can also boot Windows ME, 98, 2000, and it can do it from a drive that is not on your primary controller. I boot all my machines with etherboot on a floppy disk. This loads nbgrub over tftp / nfs. So I have centralized boot management. Here are some good starter docs... http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_toc.html David --- Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Scott Nolde wrote: > > > I have a multi-boot system and wish to migrate my FreeBSD OS from ad1s3 to > > ad0s1. Doing this wouldn't be a big deal since the actual migration is > > relatively easy. > > > > My problem is I have WinME installed on ad1s1 which lilo will boot to > > easily. Lilo has a feature called map-drive which will fake the BIOS into > > thinking WinME is on the primary drive when, in fact, it's not. > > > > Does the FreeBSD bootloader have a similar configuration feature? Or > > should I migrate my WinME partition over to the primary hard drive also? > > Booteasy (FreeBSD's default boot manager) will handle more > than one drive, but if you're fiddling around with other > OSs that can support odd things like booting from extended > partitions, maybe the `ExtIPL' boot manager is the way you > want to go. There's source, it can be compiled on FreeBSD, > Linux, and a few odd OSs from Redmond. > > Unlike most of the fancier boot managers, `ExtIPL' doesn't > require a hosting OS or its own partition; you can install > and save MBRs from a floppy. It also manages to escape the > gratuitous screen colorization and whirlygigs. This may be > a minus for some. > > The last I looked, there was a DOS version of this manager > on the freebsd site (and on the 1st CD-ROM) in the ./tools > area. I'd check the homepage for the newest. > > http://www.tsden.org/ryutaroh/extipl/ > > .cr > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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