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A Lesson Learned...
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Posted on 11/4/2004 1:29 am in Microsoft
I was working on making my work desktop triple boot try boot capable of booting into three operating systems today. The goal is to make it so that I can run the other two operating systems from VMWare, or boot into them if I had to. I had Gentoo Linux installed on a 40GB partition on the primary disk and Windows Server 2003 installed on the secondary 40GB disk. I also had a 40GB partition (formerly Windows XP) on the primary disk that I wanted to install FreeBSD on. I learned today that even if Windows isn't installed on the first disk (if you're only using IDE), it has to have a Windows partition on the first disk to put boot files on. This severely pissed me off. Eventually, I just ended up swapping the drives so the second disk was first and vice versa. Now I'll have to fix Linux to run off hdb instead of hda and reinstall Grub on the MBR of the other disk so I can multiboot. Then I can get back to isntalling FreeBSD. Unfortunately, I ran out of time after I got the system back up and running in Windows after switching the disks around. I'll have to finish it tomorrow.
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