Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 22:54:42 -0500 From: Jud <Jud@operamail.com> To: "Dillion Klein" <dillionklein@hotpop.com>, <freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Quad Boot, Multiple Partitions, Two Drives Possible? Message-ID: <3C3429EA@operamail.com>
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>===== Original Message From "Dillion Klein" <dillionklein@hotpop.com> ===== [snip] >Right now, I have 8 partitions on Drive 0, a mix of NTFS and FAT32, with a >tri-boot of Win98SE, Win2K Pro, WinXP Pro, without any problems. > >Drive 1 has two partitions right now (just set it up), starting with a 10GB >and >20GB FAT32. would like to install FeeBSD on my second hard drive, to keep >it away from my Windows world and I ould still like to be able to use some >sort >of boot manager/OS selecter. > >I have since this GRUB port fly by on the list, but do I need to install the >OS first >and sort of install Grub after so it recognizes that I have multiple OSes? [snip] You have the idea - install FreeBSD first, install the GRUB port, then set it up as your boot manager. Read the documentation carefully and have the commands you'll issue to grub and your menu.lst configuration file (that's an "L," not a "one," after the period) prepared and written/printed ahead of time. Before anything, though, back up the data you don't want to lose to some storage medium that won't be affected by this operation. GRUB isn't difficult, but with that many partitions/OSs, you naturally want to take care when playing with your MBR(s). Jud P.S. While I can't certify that all your hardware will work with FreeBSD, I have some similar stuff (DVD, memory, graphics card, earlier generation IBM HDs), and it all works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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