From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200306091737.h59Hbmv24323@fine1008.math.Princeton.EDU> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Dual Boot: OpenBSD <=> Plan9 From: John Stalker Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:37:47 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c8f96e50-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> > whatever you do, don't get that lunix grub on your disk -- ouch! >> >> Why? just from my curiousity. > >i'm no pc guru, but you can get into a state where nothing boots. > >well, it boots but is as useful as a 'hot rock'; interesting, but useless. Indeed. It did this me a few weeks weeks ago. My NetBSD partition never recovered from whatever it did--not that I tried very hard. Assuming you don't want to boot an extended partition or a partition on a disk not recognized by the BIOS the most trouble-free option is a BSD boot sector. I use a FreeBSD boot manager. It just sits there in the MBR and never requires any sort of reconfiguration if you move partitions around, upgrade kernels, install or deinstall operating systems, etc. -- John Stalker Department of Mathematics Princeton University (609)258-6469