Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:22:58 -0600 From: RichardH <richardh@wsonline.net> To: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>, bc3910@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Boot Manager Conversion Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020430184627.0264e908@pop.wsonline.net> In-Reply-To: <1020198724.58c92ffcjud@myrealbox.com>
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I had it tri booting off one HDD and then I set it up so I was booting Win98/Slack off Pri master, cd-rom pri slave, Slack second master so it is possible. As I said I do not remember the exact lilo entries, I do remember it took me almost 2 weeks to get it to boot all 3. Don't set up any boot record for the FBSD drive and then tell lilo to look in that drive for the kernel image (again I don't remember if I set up a boot partition/ boot sector on the BSD disk), I just know for a fact it can be done. I do not have any systems set up now that will run win98 so cannot set it up again and tell you how to do it, your just going to have to play with it unless someone here is tri-booting and just hasn't seen the thread yet. If you can tell me how to get win98 to recognize 1.5 GB of RAM on a system I may be able to set up a system and do it again sometime within the next few weeks. Here are some links to tri-boot info, they should help you get it going, might take a weekend of frustration but it's pretty cool once it runs right. Just remember MS has to be "first" as is their pattern in everything :-) http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1323/sam0110b/0110b.htm http://linux.geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/manyboot.htm#triple http://pub53.ezboard.com/buhelpcanhelpforum (you need to join but they have a lot of people who do this). Also join the list linux-help@aclug.org list or read through the archives at http://arch.freeciv.org/ (linux-help archive). I believe it tells you somewhere in there how to do it. You can probably just join the list, someone has a page somewhere stepping it out exactly I just cannot locate the link anymore. Richard H At 02:32 PM 4/30/2002, Jud wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Bryan Curl <bc3910@yahoo.com> >To: RichardH <richardh@wsonline.net>, freebsd-questions ><freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:23:33 -0700 (PDT) >Subject: Re: Boot Manager Conversion > > > That's exactly what I was attempting to do. All three OS's are on > seperate drives. My win98 drive has an MBR. My mandrake boots from a > floppy using Lilo. My FreeBSD drive has an MBR so I currently have to > swap the win98 with the BSD drive as required. >I tried to simply put an entry in Lilo for the BSD drive but have not had >good success defining the "boot=<partition/kernel>" variable. Perhaps >there is a table entry somewhere on the floppy and the set up needs to be >similar to the win98 entry, I don't know. >My goal is to have Primary Master=Win98(w/MBR), Primary Slave=Mandrake, >Secondary Master=Toshiba CD-RW/DVD, Secondary Slave=FreeBSD. >[snip] > >_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > >Would grub from the FreeBSD ports (/usr/ports/sysutils/grub) serve your >purpose? Don't know if you're familiar with it from the Linux world and >don't care for it, but if that's not the situation, you may want to do >some reading and see if it will work for you. > >Jud > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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