From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 3: 7:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ettnet.se (mail.ettnet.se [212.109.4.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 281AE37B400 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 03:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 49910 invoked by uid 0); 26 Jun 2002 10:07:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chappe2) (212.109.5.52) by mail.ettnet.se with SMTP; 26 Jun 2002 10:07:11 -0000 Message-ID: <000101c21cf9$3d6f1640$34056dd4@chappe2> From: "Thomas Widlundh" To: "Lorin Lund" Cc: "freeBSD" References: <04069371ZAA62XQPPJB9L54ML53KE.3d1967f6@Presarionb> Subject: Re: Lilo question Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:50:24 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I suppose you are referring to the multi-boot loader that is >available with FreeBSD install. It isn't called Lilo but it >can load slackware off of your second disk. > >You should see a menu listing F1 for your first bootable partition, >F2 for your second bootable partition (on disk 1) ... and F5 to >look at your second drive. > >You can use the multi-boot loader that comes with FreeBSD or >you can use Lilo. I'm sure either one will work. > Hi again, Earlier, with only one HDD and freeBSD only, I had this F1 showing up. But now, after having added a second HDD, there is no F1 at all. The loader just starts with some text about the loader itself, and finally there is a prompt. Now I boot Slackware on the second HDD by a diskette, but I think it would be nice to be able to choose the OS I want to boot in the loader menu. But how am I achieving this? I've read about boot, loader, loader.conf, but I'm not able to figure it out. 6/25/2002 3:56:18 PM, "Thomas Widlundh" wrote: >>On my machine I have freeBSD on the first HDD and Slackware on the >>second. >>Can I somehow make the BSD Lilo to start the Slackware on disk 2 >>(/dec/hdb)? >>Should I let Slackware install its own lilo? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message