From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 16:54:43 2004 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 AEE7716A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5E243D1F for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]:3252) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBjLe-0007dK-5C; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 16:54:18 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:44:26 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-159.acuson.com ([157.226.46.159]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id HX2WX060; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:43:07 -0700 From: Johnson David To: underway@comcast.net Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:52:06 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040407212156.31712.qmail@web25001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200404071513.37640.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <1mad1mox6f.d1m@mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <1mad1mox6f.d1m@mail.comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404081652.06355.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> cc: Tadimeti Keshav cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot 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: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 23:54:43 -0000 On Thursday 08 April 2004 04:40 pm, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > So far this is correct. LILO needs to be on the *root* partition. > > No, it doesn't. It only needs to be on some boot record: the MBR or > the BR of one of the 4 primary partitions. It was once common to put > it on a small /boot partition in the first 1024 cylinders (no longer > necessary), with the Linux root partition above 1024. You are correct. I was assuming the use of the FreeBSD Boot Manager to control the second harddrive as well, in which case you would want it on the MBR instead of LILO. The advantage of the FreeBSD Boot Manager is that you can put it on the MBR and not have to configure it later if you add another OS to the second harddrive. With LILO you would need to boot into Linux to reconfigure it. (And ditto for Grub if you installed it to a Linux filesystem). David