From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 22:20:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lexx.zssm.zp.ua (lexx.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06CA37B408 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (germes-comp.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.132] (may be forged)) by lexx.zssm.zp.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA05854; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:16:55 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAE638308; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:20:54 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:20:54 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko To: "Kirk R.Wythers" Cc: Subject: Re: replacing linux with freebsd in a dual boot setup with windows In-Reply-To: <02061210483400.01536@truffula.localdomain> Message-ID: <20020613080630.K3199-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Greetings! On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Kirk R.Wythers wrote: > I use freebsd at work and have redhat at home on a dual boot system with > windows 98. I'd like to ditch redhat in favor of freebsd. However, I'd like > to hear from you all about what to expect. I am particularly concerned about > what happens with the the boot loader. Right now I use LILO to pick between > linux and windows. Will the freebsd bootloader overwrite LILO? What should I > keep an eye on? Almost nothing to worry about. FreeBSD sysinstall procedure will ask You after 'fdisk stage' what to do with MBR (Leave untouched, write standard loader or write BootEasy). First is dangerous, because LILO may (and, imho, should) not work. Second is unsuitable, because, afaiu, it is impossible to boot Win98 from standard freebsd bootloader. And third is what You want (almost). It will recognize all partitions, and display something like: F1: Win98 (or msdos, i don't remember exactly). F2: FreeBSD But, it is not configurable. The only way to change it behavior is to reinstall it from sysinstall. But this only may add additional choices. IMHO, You can't change default boot, delay, etc. Mayb better way is to use some alternative bootmanager. Alexander V Zubchenko, E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua System Administrator, WWW: http://www.hermes-comp.zp.ua/ Hermes-comp, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya, Geroev Stalingrada 50 phone/fax: +380 612 64-19-72 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message