Good day: I don't know if it will boot FreeBSD, but I use the GAG boot loader to triple boot all of my machines...Linux, Windows XP, and various flavors of DOS. I find it much easier to deal with than LILO or GRUB.
When I install the Linux OS, I install Lilo or Grub in the MBR of the /root partition instead of the hard disk. GAG will not directly boot Linux, so you need the boot loader in the /root partition. Works very well for me...I have four machines triple booting (or more). See gag.sourceforge.net for more information. Good luck! Mark Bailey > I have had little problem "dual-booting" FreeDOS and Linux. I used the > quotes because I usually boot four or more OS's on a given PC. It is > easiest to start with a floppy boot image, tweak it until it works as > you want it to, and then install to the HDD. I have just been learn- > ing that grub does not yet seem to be able to boot FreeBSD with the > new ufs2 file system, even though it is supposed to. It works fine > with ufs1. > Ken Martwick > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:11:02AM -0400, Thomas Murray wrote: > > Is it possible to have a dual boot system (Linux and FreeDOS) using grub or > > grub4dos? From what I've seen from searching the web, a lot of people are > > having trouble with this kind of setup. Has there been any progress on this > > front? I really don't want to use a boot floppy if I don't have to, and I'd > > rather not have MSDOS on my computer as explained in the "GRUB for DOS > > How-To" that was posted on 2004-12-28. It was mentioned in that post that > > the DOS based GRUB will not run with all FreeDOS kernels. I assume that > > this means that some FreeDOS kernels will. Any ideas which ones will work? > > > > Also, emulation from within Linux with DOSemu or BOCHS is not an option for > > me for I want to use FreeDOS to run a machine controller program (TurboCNC) > > and that program requires realtime access to the computer. > > > > Thanks, > > Tom Murray > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
