From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 9:59:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ribbit.CS.Berkeley.EDU (ribbit.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.131.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8A337C0EF for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:59:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kmacy@CS.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (kmacy@localhost) by ribbit.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10595; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:52:53 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: ribbit.CS.Berkeley.EDU: kmacy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:52:53 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy To: andrew Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting into Linux from FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <004d01bf8f6e$b2810e40$0fcccccc@admin> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, can't do that, the stupid boot rom I am using doesn't work with BootEasy - it only supports booting directly into FreeBSD, but I need to run Linux. So I need to somehow boot from FreeBSD->Linux. Thanks, though. -Kip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kip Macy kmacy@cs.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, andrew wrote: > Simply install FreeBSD boot manager and then Linux. > Boot manager will detect your Linux. > > I do it with Caldera Open Linux and all be ok. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kip Macy > To: > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 5:40 AM > Subject: booting into Linux from FreeBSD > > > > I have a weird question: Is there anyway to boot into Linux from FreeBSD? > > I tried using doscmd to run loadlin, but evidently loadlin uses some > instruction > > that doscmd does not support. Any help would be much appreciated. > > > > > > -Kip > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Kip Macy kmacy@cs.berkeley.edu > > University of California, Berkeley > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message