From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Oct 24 10:31:53 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B9D444724 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:31:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.130]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CJHTM3HVTz4N1c for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:31:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([94.222.10.141]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue009 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1MY60L-1ktmLB0sVZ-00YPSM; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:31:48 +0200 Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:31:48 +0200 From: Polytropon To: TheBigBlue Guard Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the "better / best " method to multi-boot different OSes natively WITHOUT VirtualBox(es) ? Message-Id: <20201024123148.4929fb9e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:wbOp66VozFa+k++5rd5Zv6qwJP8V1zYHf5+ENOzJWPsL3Bfh6rX qN1kexzDFUCiWoCrBHxyeFwUuq0jhHthWU5Q5erwJore87vieqsbi+CeFfHTP8oLzXfJ49A +BIPR81d0iAJTJ9lpHAclNDaInlhx0Cz52JXRPJMclLAAtu/9GRgd8xiGOJAJq1uLeDvnVT fe4imacY0JIcHSS18wG4Q== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:ypRqV9CgnXo=:U3CQrYMEd/UTAKCMgPSNIg wRbEDexW7UTiwnmA4Dz8q+CNuG3p1fNmYaAnT6CCG7cTPwVdKBH1kPzdbwRRFdEKmQb/6xq7Z NGwJGfuSUF5OOgInFeZl+45kVM0K/885Ml2JNfFQuiI2XO/pgy9sEHURVchoyci1lu6sZfmsT 53TJP6hYWQUTSnn57uAVKcN1/4iQNZBFusG0w02Q0GVli7e+f50jKfk+ScxQDGqyPMIJPmRqP ihh0kbxFEuwWVc9YEeatINo2BAoE/5wV/ATkzfrq7PAH1mS8/mhP7kM445kL0/AdsWZF/LQfv ZZnYNKn1hbxJWtG+NYucIzbc1jDAIBbQnHiH6G3azLI4OgtZ3UU/nI8PeBdcJqedW7PPNWMLf LSqtVDhdDf8cfxk84ULl90M69E+k4zfzY+gcpP9BanlFs2rLC6C4gXyOUuFPR X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4CJHTM3HVTz4N1c X-Spamd-Bar: +++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@edvax.de has no SPF policy when checking 212.227.126.130) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@edvax.de X-Spamd-Result: default: False [3.32 / 15.00]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.19)[-0.195]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[94.222.10.141:received]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.58)[-0.583]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.69)[0.694]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[212.227.126.130:from]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[212.227.126.130:from]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:31:53 -0000 On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:51:25 -0700, TheBigBlue Guard wrote: > Yes ...everyone...What is the "better /best and least expensive " method(s) > to mult-boot different OSes natively WITHOUT virtual boxes like VirtualPC > or DOSBox etc. I was seriously thinking about mult-booting 5-6 different > operating systems including freeBSD..... Depends. On sooo many things... ;-) Is your computer using BIOS or UEFI? Do you have MBR or GPT partitions in place? Shall the different systems be aware of each other? Is it intended for them to share resources? If you can answer with "yes", "yes", and "let's see", the following article is probably quite helpful for you: https://github.com/bourne-again/TripleBoot-UEFI For this to be valid, I simply assume that you have a sufficiently recent PC that no longer uses a BIOS, and you will prepare your disks using GPT. Those are a lot of assumtions, though. And as I said initially, there is no definite answer, because the question contains too many variables. Does not compute. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...