On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:58 PM, x x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the best guide for setting up a multiboot system, like more than > just a dual boot system? I looked at > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting but I am not very clear > with it. I am thinking XP, OpenBSD, openSUSE, and FreeBSD 7 later on once > that comes out. > > I don't know what I am going to do about the bootloader issue with the > different OS's,
Chain loading is support in most boot managers. I know both Microsoft's boot manager & GRUB support this. GAG does as well. Chain loading is the same process which is being described in Section 4.8 of the FAQ. If you are unfamiliar/uncomfortable with the FAQ's discussion, spend time in Google. > I'm not sure how to make it bootable... XP should be the first OS installed, & this will take care of all boot issues. Install each of the other OS'es into their own primary partition. As for OpenBSD, you will not be using the entire disk, but be sure to change the active partition to whatever OS you want to boot next until the boot manager has been configured by copying the PBR back into Windows' system directory -- typically C:\. > and at what point to put the > different slices. I know when I use the whole drive for it the first slice > starts at 63 Don't try starting OpenBSD's partition at sector 63; this will only overwrite XP which has already been installed. Install Windows first & then boot OpenBSD's bsd.rd (the installation program). Ensure that a primary partition is available for OpenBSD through fdisk, & disklabel will already have the information on what CHS values define the OpenBSD partition. This was determined back when the partition type was set to A6 while in fdisk. If you have a spare machine, you might experiment. You will learn a lot from the process. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
