Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 1:59:19 -0700 (PDT) From: freebsd@ccstores.com (Jim Pazarena) To: rmasse@mastery.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: re:multi-os boot Message-ID: <E15gjO3-0003u4-00@dick.ccstores.com>
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>Subject: multi-os boot
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:29:22 -0400
>From: "Ryan Masse" <rmasse@mastery.ca>
>To: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>I know this subject has been before this list many times, but this situation
>is one that i can't find that has been covered in previous posts. I want to
>point out that references on freebsd.org to the multi-os page are broken.
>The following are the specs on this box;
>Build/Test box with 2 vers. of FBSD and win2000 spanning accross IDE and
>SCSI devices.
>What i would like to do is;
>segment off the IDE drive into 3 sections and use the SCSI drive for
>win2000.
>1. FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE
>2. FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE
>3. Shared swap
>I had gotten to the point of all the OSs installed according to the above
>layout, but was unable to find a bootloader to manage all the operating
>system spannned accross the 2 drives. In searching for a boot manager i
>found a couple that required a primary fat partition as the boot device. So
>i formated the IDE drive included a 50M FAT32 partition and left the free
>space for the 2 FBSD environments.
>As i write this email i'm waiting on the formatting... my question to you is
>'Is there a better way of going about this then what i am doing?'.
>I am prepared to wipeout, reinstall anything upon any intellegent suugestion
>from this list. Thanks in advance for your help.
>Ryan
System Commander can multi boot multiple disks, and they do NOT have
to be primary partitions.
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Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@qcislands.net
http://www.qcislands.net/paz
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