Making a bootable multi-OS DVD with bootmanager

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Nov 15 02:34:41 PST 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +0000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> It appears that I cannot put FreeBSD 5 and DragonFly on the
> same DVD (or CD) and make them both bootable.  The problem
> is that both use a similar -- but not identical -- infra-
> structure below the /boot directory.  It doesn't seem to be
> possible to use the same /boot/loader for both operating
> systems, and it doesn't seem to be (easily) possible to
> completely separate the boot process of either system into
> a directory other than /boot.

The FreeBSD 5 boot loader should be able to load the DragonFly
kernel. You just have to tell him where it is. You might run
in some smaller problems with the default search pathes though,
esp. for acpi.ko

Joerg





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