From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 27 17:35:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9378437B401 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5896D43FB1 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 29418 invoked by uid 65534); 28 Apr 2003 00:35:42 -0000 Received: from i216-58-29-174.gta.igs.net (EHLO [216.58.29.174]) (216.58.29.174) by mail.gmx.net (mp006-rz3) with SMTP; 28 Apr 2003 02:35:42 +0200 From: Adam To: Free BSD Questions list In-Reply-To: <20030428000300.GA11646@teddy.fas.com> References: <20030428000300.GA11646@teddy.fas.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YNmNHLYPmeMP79RR/zWT" Organization: Message-Id: <1051490140.27294.1.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 27 Apr 2003 20:35:40 -0400 Subject: Re: Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 00:35:44 -0000 --=-YNmNHLYPmeMP79RR/zWT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 20:03, stan wrote: > I've got a new laptop that I want to dual boot FreeBSD, and Debian Linux > on. >=20 > I installed FreeBSD specifying the boot loader, and then rebooted the > machine. I then installed Debian, specifying to leave the MBR alone, and > install LILO in /target on the linux filesystem partition. >=20 > However now when I reboot, I get a choice for Linux, but pressing that ke= y > (happens to be F3) just beeps. I looked in the handbook, and all I could > find about this was how to make LILO do this. I've run multi boot machine= s > in the past using the FreeBSD bootloader, but it's been a while, and I > forget the details of making it work. >=20 > Would I be better off using LILO or the FreeBSD bootloader (or Grub)? >=20 > How can I make the FreeBSD bootloader work for this? http://gag.sourceforge.net/ I fought with setting up dual-boot for 3 days with no luck. GAG is by far the easiest one out there to set up and customize, imo. --=20 Adam --=-YNmNHLYPmeMP79RR/zWT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+rHdcu3o4GBMSDL4RAuwmAJ9hatq5FQR+UXLZuTaIzi3rraUFzQCfeETc ZogVytxkFBw3RhgvDvQ/HZE= =zYqi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YNmNHLYPmeMP79RR/zWT--