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Old 20th December 2014
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Default GAG as a multiboot manager?

I triple boot OpenBSD, DragonFly and Windows XP (three hard disks) and use GAG boot manager: http://gag.sourceforge.net/

When discovering that it wasn't exactly straightforward to boot other operating systems - I did a little research and saw this mentioned often. It's easy to set up, it's completely independent of any OS and it works.
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I triple boot OpenBSD, DragonFly and Windows XP (three hard disks) and use GAG boot manager: http://gag.sourceforge.net/

When discovering that it wasn't exactly straightforward to boot other operating systems - I did a little research and saw this mentioned often. It's easy to set up, it's completely independent of any OS and it works.
We're likely at the point where this needs to get spun off into a new thread, but did you set up GAG from OpenBSD?
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We're likely at the point where this needs to get spun off into a new thread, but did you set up GAG from OpenBSD?
It's independent of any OS. You just burn the bootable ISO image, reboot from that, set up what you want, install it to the mbr - done.
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One more OT post: GAG is no longer being developed and it cannot write (install) itself on my workstation. A year or two ago I gave up configuring it when needed from within a virtual machine, and switched to Grub, which I installed as on OpenBSD package. Not graphical, but easier to maintain.
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We're likely at the point where this needs to get spun off into a new thread...
Completely agreed. This thread has been spun off from discussion originating from the following parent thread:

http://daemonforums.org/showthread.p...2394#post52394

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GAG used to be very good last time I used it which was 2008 but it has some problems with Linux IIRC. I remember using it to dual boot Windows and OpenBSD on the laptop given to me by my employer. Windows was the only system but since it was useless to me I shrink NTFS and used OpenBSD only. I removed OpenBSD when my employment was terminated and just extend Windows to its original partition.
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Yes, I believe the last release was at least 5 or 6 years ago. One of the major drawbacks is that it cannot handle GPT at all, so probably not the ideal solution for everyone.
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The last release was 4.10, in August 2008.

GAG can read but cannot issue write commands to my workstation's SATA controller. I used to circumvent this by booting GAG in a virtual machine, so that the drive could be attached as a Western Digital ATA/IDE controller.

When it became clear this was abandonware, I abandoned that circumvention.
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One more OT post: GAG is no longer being developed and it cannot write (install) itself on my workstation. A year or two ago I gave up configuring it when needed from within a virtual machine, and switched to Grub, which I installed as on OpenBSD package. Not graphical, but easier to maintain.
OpenBSD grub is also no longer developed but still gets bug fixes.
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And therein lies the difference. GAG is no longer supported.
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