question on Boot manager

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Piggyman

Hi. I am looking for a Boot Manager that would allow to boot several
O/S..naming Win98, Win2000, Linux, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris..Can someone
recommend a program that is shareware and work well? Thank you.
 
Adaptec SCSI controllers:

Each OS is installed on individual SCSI hard disks. During POST, the user hits "Ctrl + A"
and enters the controller's BIOS routine. You then choose the SCSI ID of the hard disk you
want to boot from. On a wide-SCSI controller you can have upto 15 hard disks with 15
different OS's.

This is the best way to do it, but it is not cheap.

Dave



| Hi. I am looking for a Boot Manager that would allow to boot several
| O/S..naming Win98, Win2000, Linux, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris..Can someone
| recommend a program that is shareware and work well? Thank you.
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Piggyman said:
Hi. I am looking for a Boot Manager that would allow to boot several
O/S..naming Win98, Win2000, Linux, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris..Can someone
recommend a program that is shareware and work well? Thank you.
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If you install win98 first, then win2k...
by default the system will dual boot.
next by installing linux, the win2k bootmanager can be added to lilo or grub

*however* FreeBSD will present a problem and it has nothing to do with
boot-managers. I tried to do something similar (only my 4th OS was OS/2
rather than
Solaris) . Because the FreeBSD slice is not recognized by windows as either
being on on a primary or logical drive...it was seen as a partition error.

After trying several 3rd party boot managers (in addition to the FreeBSD
bootloader) I eventually gave up on that project.

Perhaps someone here has come up with a *definate* solution ?
 
ir_mudd said:
I am undergoing a similar task, so I posted my question on computing.net.

http://computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/24068.html
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Looked like an interesting discussion so far.

The problem I had was not oneof getting the boot managers to work...as there
were various combinations that were successful...my problem was that FreeBSD
partitioned the drive in a
way unfamiliar to other operating systems.

Possibly, the whole thing could work out ok if FreeBSD is installed as the
very last OS...
it's just that FreeBSD might have to be deleted if any partition changes
would later need to be made
for any of the other operating systems.
 
The GRUB config for partition on a BSD lookslike this

title FreeBS
root (hd0,2,a
kernel /boot/loade

There is an 'a' after the 2 (partition/slice 3) so that it can launch FreeBSD

Read responce #4 and it might sound clearer.
 
ir_mudd said:
The GRUB config for partition on a BSD lookslike this:

title FreeBSD
root (hd0,2,a)
kernel /boot/loader

There is an 'a' after the 2 (partition/slice 3) so that it can launch FreeBSD.

Read responce #4 and it might sound clearer.
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I think that Grub on the mbr should be able to do the trick...
but I'd still recommend installing FreeBSD last
 
As John John already said, XOSL will handle this with ease.
It lets you install as many OSs as you have partitions on your
disks. For example, you can install Win2000 on a logical drive
on a slave disk, complete with its boot files, and it will appear
as drive C:. Great product, nice GUI, and free!
 
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