Re: Multi BSD boot loader
- From: "Andrey Shuvikov" <mr.hyro@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:54:01 -0400
On 9/18/07, Joshua Isom <jrisom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've brought back to life a P3 I got at a school auction years back to
use for testing software under various operating systems(presently all
bsd) on i386. My main "server" is FreeBSD/amd64. The P3 has a 10 gig
hard drive I'm not intending to upgrade(unless I buy an sata hard drive
and find that the bootloader works for atapi sata hard drives in 7.0).
I've currently partitioned it into four partitions, with FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, and DragonFlyBSD. The fourth is unused at the moment, and I
left it open for a fourth system to test on, but I partitioned it as
"FreeBSD". Here comes the problem. The boot menu currently looks like
this.
F1: FreeBSD
F2: BSD
F3: FreeBSD
F4: FreeBSD
Based on my experience FreeBSD loader (slice boot-sector) tries to
load the system from the first FreeBSD (A5) slice it can find. So even
is you press F3 you will load FreeBSD rather than DragonFlyBSD. I
resolved this issue by installing GRUB and temporarily changing the
slice type of the slices I didn't want to boot from. In addition you
can edit menu.lst before rebooting to specify which entry should be
booted next.
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