From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 12 20:10:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.he.net (ruby.he.net [216.218.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D2637B496 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:10:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by ruby.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id UAA14324; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:10:51 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Omar Gani Cc: , Subject: Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010412232022.00a4aec8@popmail.inwind.it> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Thu, 12 Apr 2001 it looks like Omar Gani composed: daemon->Keep in mind that you can't make more than 4 partitions in a daemon->hard disk. So unless you put linux partitions on logical daemon->DOS/win9X partition, you have to exactly 4 partition (DOS/win9X, daemon->FreeBSD, Linux & Linux's SWAP). daemon-> I have the same triple boot running on a laptop with LILO booting them all. In LBA mode I installed in four primaries on a 6 gig drive with the nose of the 4th primary partiton (FreeBSD) beginning under the 1024 cylinder mark: Windows = 2.5 gig Linux /boot = 25MB Linux / = 2 gig FBSD = remainder of drive. I did create the 4th primary while installing Linux but left it unformatted and made sure I chose NOT to install the FreeBSD bootloader on anything. I grew up with LILO and just default to it. The /etc/lilo.conf stanza's for the Linux file looks like this: (/etc/lilo.conf) ######################################### [root@corten2 ~]--> less /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 default=linux other=/dev/hda1 label=dos image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0 label=linux read-only root=/dev/hda3 other=/dev/hda4 label=bsd ######################################### Being a creature of habit, I just keep working around the 1024 cylinder problem. I hear the new LILO can see beyond that now. I've made a little demo for some customers I had at work when they called for dual boot adivce and the 1024 cylinder issue with Linux. http://wiliweld.com/lba.txt Can anyone share their experience with FreeBSD's bootloader and controlling Linux and Windows ? -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message