Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:49:13 +0000 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu, martster@gmail.com Subject: Re: how to dual boot Message-ID: <200512170149.BAA26537@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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> The only odd thing is if the FreeBSD MBR detects a bootable slice with > a filesystem type it does not know such as NTFS, it identifies it in > the menu as '???' rather than with a name. I'm triple-booting FreeBSD, NetBSD and that penguin thingy. NetBSD's fdisk(8) allows setting the menu labels to whatever string you want. (limited to ~8 chars due to limited space in the MBR) NetBSD's fdisk also automatically figures out how much space you have left as you add partitions (er, "slices" in FreeBSD-speak). On the other hand, if you want/need overlapping partitions/slices for some reason, FreeBSD's fdisk will do it and NetBSD's will not. (according to the man pages, I didn't try it) For even more user-programablilty, grub has some nice features. But doesn't fit in the MBR.
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