Now, how are you going to multiboot OpenBSD and NetBSD on a PowerPC
machine
from the same hard disk.
I didn't say anything about a requirement for booting multiple OSes
from the same disk. I said:
Go through all the disks and look
for bootable partitions. Extract the GPT partition labels for
these partitions. Present a menu of choices.
There can be multiple disks. (Assuming the hardware supports that.)
I haven't worked with PowerPC machines and it has been a very long time
since I worked with Sparc. I'm more familiar with Alpha, which would
take
some hacking to boot more than one OS per disk, but some rocket
scientist
decided to drop FreeBSD support for Alpha, so I suspect that no one here
cares about Alpha.
From what I know, one or the other can only be as
the first entry and it then has to be set from the forth prompt.
So, you will need two disks to boot , saya: OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
Linux,
and MacOSX or a combination of these.
On PPC boxes with OpenFirmware 3.x, you actually need to set the
active
partition if you want to boot Linux and/or freebsd from the forth
prompt if
both are on the same disk.
Can these PPC boxes boot from GPT disks? "active partition" sounds
MBRish.
Perhaps they can use the "protective MBR" trick?
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