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> >Not to blow my own horn, but:
> >
> >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
> >
> >
>  If you have a time and you would like to run current, release, stable
> and extra
> a few OS,  Install *Linux and use extended partition(slice for BSD guys)
> and Grub, and you can run at most 8 OS on your single HDD. Grub would
> boot from Linux extended partition( not dos extended partition).

I have GRUB boot from the i386-FreeBSD partition which is the first on the disk.
Makes it very easy to get the repair-CD and find the first / to repair the
bootsector when MS has again threaded over it.

Getting it to boot 8 OS-es is not as far as I got, because I've not started
experimenting with extended partition. I've got 3 primaries, 1 extended.

--WjW