Re: Making a bootable multi-OS DVD with bootmanager

["Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +0000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
> > It appears that I cannot put FreeBSD 5 and DragonFly on the
> > same DVD (or CD) and make them both bootable.  The problem
> > is that both use a similar -- but not identical -- infra-
> > structure below the /boot directory.  It doesn't seem to be
> > possible to use the same /boot/loader for both operating
> > systems, and it doesn't seem to be (easily) possible to
> > completely separate the boot process of either system into
> > a directory other than /boot.
>
>
> The FreeBSD 5 boot loader should be able to load the DragonFly
> kernel. You just have to tell him where it is. You might run
> in some smaller problems with the default search pathes though,
> esp. for acpi.ko
>
> Joerg
>
> .

One suggestion -- use GRUB or any of the other bootloaders that will 
load both.

--Devon