booting other systems

fluca1978

fluca1978

Hi,
a trivial question: can the FreeBSD boot loader loads other operating systems? And if not, why does not FreeBSD use something like grub (I guess a license issue)?
 
Yes, it can load other operating systems. It wouldn't be of much use if it couldn't.

Grub can't be added to the base OS because of licensing issues.
 
I have Windows 7, Linux Ununtu (old) and FreeBSD all on the GRUB boot loader. But I actually went on Linux and installed GRUB overwriting FreeBSD's bootloader & GRUB allows multiple OS boots well it chainloads them which means GRUB will run it's boot, and when an option is chosen that OS's boot will then load up.
 
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