Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 21:50:35 -0400 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick question re: dual-booting Message-ID: <5566746B.6040300@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <D18BC1DA.1379A1%rpokala@panasas.com> References: <D18BC1DA.1379A1%rpokala@panasas.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --CaMGrb6ueSGN6WUvl57eFUW3G19ivuikr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2015-05-27 21:47, Pokala, Ravi wrote: > Hi folks, >=20 > For doing some apples-to-apples comparisons on a piece of hardware, we > want to be able to easily flip back and forth between FreeBSD (10.1, > amd64, traditional non-UEFI bootstrap w/ GPT) and Linux. To minimize th= e > chance of an installer going wrong and nuking something, we're installi= ng > one drive, installing FreeBSD on it, then swapping in another drive and= > installing Linux on it. Then we'll install both drives, and let the > bootloader control which one gets booted. >=20 > The question is: how do we tell the bootloader which OS to boot? If we = can > do it using loader, great! If we have to use something like grub, that'= s > fine too. But either way, I need some guidance. >=20 > Thoughts? >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Ravi >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 Grub will definitely work. I've also successfully dual-booted FreeBSD UEFI and Windows UEFI using rEFInd --=20 Allan Jude --CaMGrb6ueSGN6WUvl57eFUW3G19ivuikr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVZnRtAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKfS3oP/iPxHUcZEKL02G8w0KYoowmq S67AfGaWlf+VFWDoN+oOWISjg/9rEspDiaIv6GC+1cJXn1R3vLM1hLlxccHfz/3X PmU4KdV3nMrp3FOIsXK17Uwh8BFb10XLTaxl0zeVNJ9soX+ywCiV/iQPQSGcIQsO CuWuyVjIcMkKCBV+z+91AHUUXHbUtEJ/TBynrQm3p2NANhme0X9bqF8rvb9sa6Qe uWesxq79FbvUYw0K6lz7vgY/0WTs9DGFKZLbOiisT5Ah7a4MwezZ+1dOwpkeOWuI w8xZJFpT8MPHanqHaeeyD68Nh3vyqAuc+j22TE9DntkEUH46Q4WMRoGVUr5wsh+z y6DMVoYyGalq5tq0oiIsUcEiS2hC39cQu5ZkJw11epmyCco/Jrg/3gAo1gjOY8ui E5ZJg+y5MtHRt/5Zaeo09vKuqrzPiIsNwWKFAUll9VqL104fcZ1q4fWdWHJ1YgAv 4EGpKXt1kuUssIeV2rPv9td/UUCtYdKFhx9cAQrvKfo33M3gFb+dM5P9bxM4GMP0 f41wPKt0w/qe8F3zdxix86LBCgtQXCyrs9VnJdQpsYVNlKrukuNSMVzaEkEztXnz wljQu/tMeis++LBmTavYqsALBH1R+HJlsnjXUB0z1+J4WkqVaIde5JCLRLNsM6KH fV1kbnTJdW99mcdo7etv =62dr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CaMGrb6ueSGN6WUvl57eFUW3G19ivuikr--
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