Quick question re: dual-booting

Pokala, Ravi rpokala at panasas.com
Sat May 30 00:22:18 UTC 2015


-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu>
Date: 2015-05-27, Wednesday at 07:11
To: Ravi Pokala <rpokala at panasas.com>
Cc: "freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Quick question re: dual-booting

>It has been so long since I last did this, I cannot remember the correct
>names of things.   But, basically ...
>...

Hi Jerry,

I actually know all this. :-) In fact, I've hacked on pmbr.S in the past,
to debug a boot issue. (i386 assembly - <shudder> Fortunately, the
nightmares have mostly stopped. Mostly.)

>There are other boot managers such as Grub. ...

Right. I know the theory of operation for these things, I'm just looking
for more of a walk-through. Thanks though. :-)

-Ravi



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