justlinux.com — Amazing how this guy has installed in one box so many OS's: 3 Dos, 3 Windows, 5 BSDs, 2 Solaris, 97 Linux Distros. Here he explains how to configure Grub and menu to handle his 100+ installed operating systems.
Feb 11, 2006 View in Crawl 4
hiroFeb 12, 2006
^^ Um "adding"
volatileacidFeb 13, 2006
some people have too much time on their hands.
geekoFeb 13, 2006
Dude, this guy is my freakin' hero.
saikeeFeb 17, 2006
nibus,It is privilege to bump into you.I am actually an active member in various Linux forums help others to overcoming booting problems. It seems many users do not realise how simple booting can be so I "retained" every system I installed. In answering many forum members questions I could look at my box to investigate their problems as chances are I would have their systems too.All my non-MS systems are free downloadable OSs installable for a PC so systems on different platforms are out. If I can find more PC systems I will certainly put them into the box. I managed to get Grub to boot Darwin x86 too but due to lack of CPU driver its kernel panics. None of my 4 AMD-CPU desktops and one Pentium-laptop in the house could run Darwin so I did not mentioned it in my thread.Your work was much harder 4 years ago because Linux was in a much poor state of development. I have since added a Post #11 to the 100+ system thread to suggest why it is ripe to install a large number of systems in 2006. I have many advantages that you did not have and so technically you have achieved considerably more with even less systems booted. May be you can honour my thread to put your link personally there as. I did look at your article when I nearly finished mine. I got the feeling some of your systems may be difficult to source now.I don't mind all form of comments. I can only assume those speaking critically of my effort have in-depth knowledge but unwilling to share with me by pointing out where my shortcomings are. Viewers speaking my operating systems are "pirated" may not be aware 99% of Linux and BSD are free and there are open source versions of Solaris and Darwin freely available. Linux is a logical system and so it is easy to work with. Its knowledge is in the public domain and so I can learn it easier and quicker than any commercial system that may have parts not revealed to the public. I am not doing any harm but contributing my tiny little effort to advance our understanding in booting operating systems. Thus negative comments don't bother me at all. The real heros are the authors and maintainers of Grub. Without their good effort Grub would not be able to excels the other boot loaders and makes our life easier.