Bug 14800

Summary:	FreeBSD BootMgr not configurable (or at least no info)
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	jay.krell <jay.krell>
Component:	i386	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description jay.krell 1999-11-09 15:20:06 UTC

I'm somewhat interested in using the FreeBSD BootMgr to boot multiple OSes on multiple drivers on one machine.

Fix: 

I have drive trays, so I move the drives around. Other boot manager, including Lilo and NT's can probably handle this. NT's is poorly documented but the info on multibooting NT and Linux should work; Lilo is a hack, but perhaps well documented, I don't know, I've seen a lot of docs on it, but always just barely got by with the NT boot loader. Lilo is a hack, though kind of elegantly simple/small 'cause it knows nothing about any file systems, it just knows what blocks the kernel is on...
How-To-Repeat: Install NT on a drive. Move the drive to a secondary controller. Install FreeBSDD to the new primary drive. Attempt to boot NT. (could also try Win98, Linux, a different version of FreeBSD, etc.)

Comment 1 iedowse freebsd_committer

2001-08-12 22:39:26 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback


Is this still a problem with the newer boot0 boot manager?

Comment 2 Chris D.Faulhaber freebsd_committer

2001-11-16 23:25:05 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

o boot0 can boot operating systems on multiple drives. 
o information about installing boot0 can be found in the 
boot0cfg man page. 
o feedback timeout (3 months).