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On 28.10.2012 01:46 (UTC+2), Yuri wrote:
> On 10/27/2012 02:42, matt wrote:
>> This means you have grub2. It is slow as molasses and has to be the mbr.
>> You could chainload freebsd's partition under a separate entry, like
>> Windows The partition bootcode for FreeBSD will boot it from there. You
>> can also boot loader or kernel directly from grub, your choice.
> 
> So you are saying I can't keep BSD MBR and boot linux from under it when
> linux uses grub2?

Maybe, that I missed something. But why do you not boot FreeBSD from
that grub2, which was installed by Linux? As Matt suggested, there are
at least to possible ways of booting FreeBSD from grub. And I can
confirm, that they do work.

Rainer

> Is it still possible to still use lilo? I vaguely remember that it used
> to work like this.
> 
> Yuri