You may also want to take a look at the XOSL-bootloader (www.xosl.org).
It's freeware so that should not be any problem. I don't know if it
supports booting from several disks but it seems to be able to do that.

/Andreas

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:26:25AM +0200, Borchert, IT-IS S254, B wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On the first disk I have windows95 for my child, freebsd and netbsd15 for me.
> > On the second disk are linux and another netbsd15 installation for testing purposes.
> > How can I configure the bootloader so, that I can all systems boot? With fdisk -B I
> > get only a menu of systems which are on the first disk. How can I add the others on
> > the second disk to the menu ? I dont want to use lilo.
>
> The bootselector can only directly deal with the partitions on the
> same disk; I wrote it to fit into one sector (512 bytes), and
> there wasn't any room left for more options.
>
> What it can do, though, is boot from another disk by pressing
> f5-f10 (f5 is the first harddisk). So if you configure the 2nd
> disk with fdisk -B as well, you can boot the partition you
> want in two stages. I.e. you first press f6 to get to the 2nd
> disk, and then choose the partition as usual.
>
> - Frank
>
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