The discussion of a new bootloader reminded me of the
following problem:
What we need more than a new bootloader is a new bootstrap.
With MBR, NetBSD's boot selector MBR works reasonably well.
(About as well as can be expected given the limited space available.)
You get a menu of partitions
Now, how are you going to multiboot OpenBSD and NetBSD on a PowerPC machine
from the same hard disk. From what I know, one or the other can only be as
the first entry and it then has to be set from the forth prompt.
So, you will need two disks to boot , saya: OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux,
and
Now, how are you going to multiboot OpenBSD and NetBSD on a PowerPC
machine
from the same hard disk.
I didn't say anything about a requirement for booting multiple OSes
from the same disk. I said:
Go through all the disks and look
for bootable partitions. Extract the GPT partition labels
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:59 PM, dieter...@engineer.com wrote:
Now, how are you going to multiboot OpenBSD and NetBSD on a PowerPC
machine
from the same hard disk.
I didn't say anything about a requirement for booting multiple OSes
from the same disk. I said:
Go through all the disks
On 03/28/11 15:59, dieter...@engineer.com wrote:
From what I know, one or the other can only be as
the first entry and it then has to be set from the forth prompt.
So, you will need two disks to boot , saya: OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
Linux,
and MacOSX or a combination of these.
On PPC
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