Triple Boot..hmm..wait..how about 4 ?

[intercodes]

Hiya,

Iam currently running windows XP dual with Fedora core 3. Iam thinking of formatting both my sata and ide hard drive.

I would like to set a triple boot ,

*windows XP pro
*Fedora core 3
*Free BSD 5.3 or Slackware 10

I wud like to know whether to install FreeBSD or Slackware 10. And will there be any problem with this triple boot setup? which order should i install? And finally, can i install all the 4 of em?

 

[southernlady]

A friend of mine did a quad boot. How he did it, I don't know. I'll see if I can find out tho. Liz

 

[TheMajor]

I did a 5 OS boot. I don't know if there's a bootmanager that supports all 4 of your OS. I would hide all partitions except the one you are installing to and install a bootmanager on XP. I would put XP on the very first partition on your first HD to make sure it can see all other OS's. But I am not sure about FreeBSD and Linux filesystems. Maybe u should use Linux as primary OS+ bootloader.

 

[intercodes]

TheMajor,

Thanks for the reply major.

Maybe u should use Linux as primary OS+ bootloader.

Naaah, Its not just me using this computer. I have a elder bro, he always sticks to XP. If this comp was only for me ,i wud put linux as my primary OS.

 

[TMan7000]

One of my friend's uncle's computer could boot into over 15 different Os's. He worked for the government though so they probably have something special.

 

[TheMajor]

all u need for 15 OS are 4 HD's.

 

[Hotwheelz]

I believe the record is 67 different OS's.

 

[TheMajor]

Wow, that needs at least 17 HD's. Ofcourse you need a good bootmanager also!

 

[intercodes]

all u need for 15 OS are 4 HD's.

How do you calculate that? is there a limit on number of OS that you can put on a single HDD?

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Note: Iam still using my old setup, have to format and make a triple

 

[TheMajor]

Only 4 OS per HD cause u can only make 4 primary partitions and you can only boot from a primary partition cause a logical partition is basically a part of a primary partition and does not have its own VBR. Logical partitions are linked together like clusters on an NTFS partition.