Ben Collver wrote
> --- Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
> > > The only time I dual-booted BSD and Linux, I used
> > > LILO, which comes with many distributions.  If you
> > > haven't chosen a distribution to go with yet, I
> > > recommend downloading Debian.
> > you can also tell linux to install lilo on its root
> > partition instead of the MBR (this needs to be a
> > primary partition) and then you can use any boot
> > selector (booteasy, os-bs, the NetBSD one that you
> > can install with fdisk -B, etc ...)
> 
> I haven't yet been able to get booteasy or os-bs to
> boot from multiple hard drives, they seem to be
> designed to boot from multiple partitions on the same
> drive.  Booteasy always complains that it cannot find
> the non-NetBSD OS on the other hard drive, so I am
> probably doing something wrong.
> 
> Does anyone else boot from multiple hard drives?

I've os2bs to boot two operating systems from different harddisk
drives... no problems... AFAIK, it only detects partitions that are
bootable so perhaps here is the secret...

cheerio Berndt
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