From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 22 15:22:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jordan.llnl.gov (jordan.llnl.gov [128.115.36.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D24C37B406 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alley1@llnl.gov) Received: (from wea@localhost) by jordan.llnl.gov (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7MMMRF00863; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:22:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Ed Alley Message-Id: <200108222222.f7MMMRF00863@jordan.llnl.gov> To: bts@babbleon.org, jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz Subject: Re: Will Lilo run under FreeBSD with Linux emulation? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 17:09, Jonathan Chen wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:00:35PM -0700, Ed Alley wrote: >> >>> I am running FBSD4.x on various machines. Can I run >>> Lilo (the Linux loader) under FreeBSD using >>> Linux emulation? >> >> No. Lilo runs before Linux starts up, and so is not a candidate for >> emulation. > No, he means the lilo program that installs the boot loader. > The could conceivably work, but I'd be loath to try it. Thanks for the clarification; I was in the middle of drafting my own when Brian's e-mail arrived. :-) > Actually, I like the FreeBSD loader much better myself; I actually ran Linux > with the FreeBSD boot loader for a while before switching entirely back to > FreeBSD. Yes the FreeBSD loader works fine: it gives you a menu and etc. And I have used both the default FreeBSD loader and/or Lilo in the case of multiple OSs with Linux installed. What I want to do is get rid of Linux altogether. However, I like the configuration file approach of Lilo. It gives me the feeling (probably misplaced) that I am in control. (:->) At any rate, thanks for the comments. I think that I'll just trash the Linux OSs and live without Lilo; its a small price to pay for the added disk space and simplicity of operation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message