Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:43:12 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: boot manager other than booteasy Message-ID: <20000830184312.A19746@mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <39ADA673.50ADC84C@gmx.de>; from siegbert.baude@gmx.de on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:27:31AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0008301842370.9965-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> <39ADA673.50ADC84C@gmx.de>
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And Siegbert Baude spoke: > Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > I have installed Linux on my laptop and am using LILO as the boot manager. > > Compared to booteasy, LILO can not remember the last OS I booted from and > > boot from that OS automatically next time powerup. But booteasy can not > > recognize Linux in a DOS extended partition. Is there any FREE boot > > manager that can boot Linux in a DOS extended partition and yet can > > remember the last OS it booted from? > > www.xosl.org > > Will need lilo also somewhere to boot linux (and the BeOS bootman for > BeOS). If for example you have your Linux root in /dev/hda5 then tweak > your lilo.conf to point to /dev/hda5 instead of the default /dev/hda. Of > course you donīt have to configure lilo for all your other OSs then, but > only for Linux. xosl will do the others (including FreeBSD). > > xosl does also work around the 1024 cylinder boundary FreeBSD had before > 4.1 > > xosl is really fine, but either needs a small partition of its own (like > the OS/2 equivalent) or some FAT-partition to be installed on. > > Ciao > Siegbert That looks very slick and all, but I recommend grub, now in the ports collection (sysutils/grub). It will boot virtually anything and can be used interactively on its own command line. It also does not need Lilo to boot into Linux. However, I don't know if it will remember the last OS booted from and boot from it. The way I have it set up is that it boots the first one listed in the configuration file. It will give you a menu to choose from, but by default it will pick the one first on the list after a timeout also specified in the configuration file. Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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