On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 07:52:02AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > > IF you want to multiboot, just don't until you can answer questions like > this yourself. Multibooting is very complicated, and requires a mastery > of the boot process of ALL the OSs installed. People often consider it > a way to "learn" a new OS, I disagree, it is a good way to get massively > frustrated and lose a lot of data.
I could not agree more. Unless you are specifically interested in learning how to develop bootloaders and that is something that yo consider essential to your career plan going forward, please do not mess with multibooting. If your plan is to learn anything besides bootloader internals, please do the sane thing and either run the one you are trying to learn on bare hardware (the best you can afford) or if you are comfortable with a virtualization platform, use that. Multibooting will always be a painful distraction unless bootloaders and their interactions with OSes and random hardware is what you want to spend the bulk of your time on. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
