From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 2:31:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBF637C015 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:31:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-195-14-244-160.netcologne.de [195.14.244.160]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17373; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:31:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6S9VUr01505; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:31:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:31:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Steve Sizemore Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiboot linux + freebsd on two drives In-Reply-To: <20000727134824.C39397@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> 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 On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Steve Sizemore wrote: > Simple version of my question: "How can I make my second disk, > containg FreeBSD, bootable?" Like you mentioned, BootEasy will do this for you. In order for this to work, BootEasy needs to be in the MBR of all disks you want to boot from. > There seem to be two alternatives suggested for multibooting linux > and FreeBSD, in the available documentation. First, install > BootEasy, which is what sysinstall did for me. However, in order > to boot linux, lilo has to be installed in the boot slice > (partition) rather than the mbr. Makes sense, but there's no > mention of how to do that. In lilo.conf, change: boot=/dev/sda - to - boot=/dev/sdaX where X is the partition number of your linux partition, and then rerun the lilo command. Then install BootEasy on the MBR of both your disks (the easiest way is with sysinstall.) That should do it. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message