On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:08:12 -0400, PJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Gag is really about the simplest you can find... it is installed on the > main drive that is selected by bios and it works from there. I have > found it to be quite safe and reliable. Only difficulty is sometimes to > figure ;out what dist it is booting from but that can be worked out be > trial and error. I've tried the rest, this is the best KISS.
The last time I did dual boot is long ago; I used FreeBSD's boot manager for this, it worked well, so there was no need for something else to try. :-) > the boot... it could be seen in the onscreen mesages... and then the > boot oviously failed... Seems that the first boot stage finds ad12 BEFORE ad4, which is quite strange... or is the setting hardcoded somewhere in the boot loader? > I noticed that but have not yet had the opportunity to look into it. That would be a good point to start diagnostics. The most obvious is often such a point... > The fstab did cure the problem and showed some of the pitfalls one can > encounter. After fixing the fstab, the boot did not complete because the > fstab from the source disk had anextra partition (/backups) which were > not present in the original ad4 disk. But that was easiily fixed by > simply removing the fstab entry for that /backups partition. Now it > works fine. Excellent! And you have learned something new. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
