From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 18 11: 8:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from VM.SC.EDU (vm.sc.edu [129.252.45.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC5EC14BDD for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 11:08:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MBKING0@VM.SC.EDU) Received: by VM.SC.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R4a) via spool with SMTP id 7070 ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:07:58 EDT Received: from UNIVSCVM (NJE origin MBKING0@UNIVSCVM) by VM.SC.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 7650; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:07:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 99 13:57:59 EDT From: "Marius M. Rex" Organization: University of South Carolina Subject: Multiple OS's To: WAYNE@CRB-WEB.COM Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: <19990718180833.AC5EC14BDD@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can the FreeBSD bootloader load multiple foriegn OS's? Oh-yes. My first system ran PC-DOS 7.0, Win 3.1, OS/2 Warp 4.0, and FreeBSD 2.2.5 all on one hard disk. I used FreeBSD's standard "booteasy" to startup. My current system runs FreeBSD 3.1-R, Linux Red Hat 5.2, and Win95 all mixed together on two hard disks. I have faith that the 3.2 bootloader can handle your situation. One gotcha- Don't place any FreeBSD partions between your linux boot partion (/ or /boot) and any of Linux's extended partitions. It can get ugly. ---------------------------------------- Marius mbking0@vm.sc.edu University of South Carolina, Columbia "We will get along fine once you realize that I am almost always wrong." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message