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Subject: Re: Dual booting Free BSD 6 and Slackware
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Hi.

Allen wrote:
> Hallo all:
>
> Here is a question which may or may not be simple:
>
> /boot/vmlinuz
>
> Is the boot file you add to lilo
>
> What is the equiv of this in Free BSD? /boot/kernel doesn't seem to work
> on
> lilo and I'd really like to use it for booting and I've done it before,
> that
> and Free BSD didn't want to boot Linux at first (Was my fault) so does
> anyone
> know... Actually I'm assuming you do know because that's why I asked here
> instead, but anyway, I've been reading through the books I bought, and it
> doesn't mention anything like "Ok, in Linux it's /boot/vmlinuz, in Free
> BSD
> it's...."
>
> Any help is appreciated, or a link that explains what to add.

If i remember this.

You can add next in lilo.conf to boot FreeBSD

other=/dev/hdaX
     label=FreeBSD

Change hdaX for your partition number. reinstall lilo and test it.

Regards

> -Allen


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