Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > my apologies for cross-posting this to several Linux mailing lists. What you have done is referred to as multiposting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting "This is distinct from multiposting, which is the posting of

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 30 nov 12, 22:21:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 10:45 -0800, Weaver wrote: > > GAG > > Being able to boot only 9 kernels isn't enough. You snipped too much, Weaver wrote about 9 *different* OSs. I don't understand that to mean you can not boot 10 Linux kernels ;) Kind re

Re: OT : BSD vs Linux was Re : Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-12-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 01:07 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I have questions about why are you needing so much kernels. My apologies, I'm short in time, so my off-list mail also is short and slightly OT. On the quick: I need that much kernels, because I've got issues with audio lat

OT : BSD vs Linux was Re : Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 30.11.2012 22:21, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 10:45 -0800, Weaver wrote: GAG Being able to boot only 9 kernels isn't enough. If I want to compare two kernel-rt and two full preempt kernels on two distros, I already need to be able to boot 8 kernels. Currently on my ma

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 10:45 -0800, Weaver wrote: > GAG Being able to boot only 9 kernels isn't enough. If I want to compare two kernel-rt and two full preempt kernels on two distros, I already need to be able to boot 8 kernels. Currently on my machine: spinymouse@q:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst ti

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-30 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 30 novembre 2012 11:21, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 10:42 +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > >>> Any hints are welcome! >>> >> >> Look in the debian installation manual. >> I am saying that because Debian is able to use a freeBSD kernel, so >> there should be informations a

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 10:42 +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > > Any hints are welcome! > > Look in the debian installation manual. > I am saying that because Debian is able to use a freeBSD kernel, so there > should be informations about how to install that flavor. > > I can not help more, I never

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 10:46 +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > > Taking the specification of `trillions' of installs as a slight > > exaggeration and not the combined efforts of multiple generations, I find > > that GAG, a Spanish-based GPL effort, is quite comfortable booting as > > Do you mean tha

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-30 Thread Morel Bérenger
> Taking the specification of `trillions' of installs as a slight > exaggeration and not the combined efforts of multiple generations, I find > that GAG, a Spanish-based GPL effort, is quite comfortable booting as Do you mean that Spanish-based GPL efforts are gags (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-30 Thread Morel Bérenger
> Any hints are welcome! Look in the debian installation manual. I am saying that because Debian is able to use a freeBSD kernel, so there should be informations about how to install that flavor. I can not help more, I never tried other multi-boot than Debian/wXP (c) and this works automatically.

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-29 Thread Weaver
On Thu, November 29, 2012 10:37 am, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: >> >> I need a boot loader for Linux, that is comfortable to use for my needs, >> a Linux multi-boot with >> trillions of Linux installs, >> trillions ^ 2 kernels and >> (trillions ^ 2) * 102

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I need a boot loader for Linux, that is comfortable to use for my needs, > a Linux multi-boot with > trillions of Linux installs, > trillions ^ 2 kernels and > (trillions ^ 2) * 1024 entries with different boot options, so something > as GRU

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > my apologies for cross-posting this to several Linux mailing lists. > > I need a boot loader for Linux, that is comfortable to use for my needs, > a Linux multi-boot with > trillions of Linux installs, > trillions ^ 2 kernels and > (