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From: Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu>
To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>
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Subject: RE: debian/freebsd
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in your grub.conf, the kernel line, does it have the word "single" on it?  
that is how you tell grub to go into single user mode.

jason

> Jason,
> 
> I didn't install lilo. I am using grub. What happens is it boots up into a
> single user mode with an sh shell. I am not sure why it would do that?
> 
> thanks for your input,
> brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason P Holland [mailto:jholland@cs.selu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:25 PM
> To: Henning, Brian
> Cc: freebsd-questions-en
> Subject: RE: debian/freebsd
> 
> 
> 
> what do you mean by corrupting?  lilo doesn't come up?  if you telling 
> debian to install lilo in the MBR, then that is your problem.  it needs to 
> go in the root partition of your linux installation.
> 
> jason
> 
> > messmate,
> > i have 3 primary and one extended partitions. I have linux in my extended.
> > The real problem is debian. I can install redhat just fine with bsd on the
> > system. I can't install debian without corrupting my bsd partition.
> > brian
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: messmate [mailto:messmate@free.fr]
> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 1:34 PM
> > To: Henning, Brian
> > Cc: freebsd-questions-en
> > Subject: Re: debian/freebsd
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > YES you can.
> > I have win, linux and FreeBSD installed on the same disk.
> > My bootmanager is LILO without any pb.
> > Remarks: you can have anly 4 primary partitions or 3 primary and 1
> extended
> > on the same HD.
> > A+
> > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:10:26 -0500
> > "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> wrote:
> > 
> > | Hello-
> > | I have one hard drive that I want to have freeBSD and debian Linux exist
> > on.
> > | I want freebsd in a primary partition and I want linux and linux swap in
> > the
> > | logical partitions in the extended partition. Every time I try to
> install
> > | debian, it corrupts my freebsd partition. After that is corrupt I
> > reinstall
> > | freebsd and I it corrupts my debian partition. Does anyone have a duel
> > boot
> > | system with these two operating systems on the same disk? is it not
> > possible
> > | to have debian and freebsd on the same disk?
> > | thanks-
> > | brian
> > | 
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