From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 15:17:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A303D16A4D1 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C2743D4C for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:17:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]:3783) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBLKl-0007lA-5X; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:15:47 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:05:59 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-159.acuson.com ([157.226.46.159]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id HX2WXGFA; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:04:40 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Tadimeti Keshav , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:13:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040407212156.31712.qmail@web25001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040407212156.31712.qmail@web25001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404071513.37640.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Subject: Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 22:17:27 -0000 On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:21 pm, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: > hi all. > I added a 2 GB linux disk as a slave and installed > Mandrake Linux with LILO on the root partition of > linux. So far this is correct. LILO needs to be on the *root* partition. > I am trying configure Boot Easy to boot linux. > Since FreeBSD occupies all of the 1st HD, should I > install a STANDARD boot loader on first or on both > Hard disks. The standard boot loader is NOT a boot loader. All it will do is boot the partition that is marked bootable. You want to choose BootMgr for each harddrive, if you want to use the FreeBSD boot manager. Please see the section in the Handbook" 2.5.3 Install a Boot Manager". The boot menu will display the partitions named by partition type (FreeBSD, Linux, DOS, ??). All partitions will be listed, not just the ones that are bootable. It's very easy to use if you know what your partitions are. It's amazing that they were able to fit a general purpose boot manager into only 512 bytes! Chapter 7 of the Handbook "The FreeBSD Booting Process" describes this in excruciating detail. David Johnson