Setting up a Dual boot

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Morning everyone. (Morning here. :) )

I wanted to get some feedback on a dual boot I will be setting up at work, for one of my workstations. I am going to put on a Linux Distro and FreeBSD 4.8.

I was curious if anyone had some suggestions on which OS I should install first. I was thinking FreeBSD, as I could make my slice accordingly, then install Linux on the remaining disk space. (It's a 40gb drive.)

Also, what about a boot loader. minion had posted a link for gag.sourceforge.net. That should suffice shouldnt it?

Alright. I appreciate everyones input.

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[elmore]

use gag for your bootloader

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Any preference on which OS to install first?

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[bsdjunkie]

In this case with fbsd and linux, it really shouldnt matter waht is installed first. Either OS's bootloader should be able to boot the other OS.

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I'm back everyone!

Well, so far, I have 50% luck in dual booting my second workstation. Quick recap, I was going to install FreeBSD 4.8 and Linux.

This is what I did: I installed FreeBSD first. I cut out a slice and layed out my partitions.

I then installed Red Hat on the left over disk space. Made my partitions, finished the install. So far so good.

I then setup GAG. (Which is really cool little program).
This is where the problem is for me at this time.

I have been able to setup FreeBSD correctly in GAG, but not Red Hat. When I go to add new operating system, then try and test it out, I get an error about not finding the sector.

Now, I am wondering if I screwed up the Linux installation. I did not specify a boot loader during the setup. I am wondering if I need to?

Anyone suggestions on how to get this up and runnig?

BTW, FreeBSD 4.8 looks very nice. I just need to fix my mouse problem. heheh

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[Strog]

If you have extended partition(s) after your linux install then you have some issues. The problem is that UFS support isn't in linux kernel by default and will hose if trying to go past some UFS partitions/slices on the way. Your FreeBSD slices need to be after all the linux stuff in the drive layout.

The easiest way to do this is to install linux first at leave room at the end of the drive for your FreeBSD slice(s).

[soup4you2]

i think i saw an article on daemonnews about doing that.. you might want to search on their website.. but that was actually a little more indepth on making the 2 co-inside each other