Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:34:14 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, Ed Alley <alley1@llnl.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will Lilo run under FreeBSD with Linux emulation? Message-ID: <01082217341403.00596@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20010823090950.C64122@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010822112453.C625-100000@jordan.llnl.gov> <20010823090950.C64122@itouchnz.itouch>
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On Wednesday 22 August 2001 17:09, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:00:35PM -0700, Ed Alley wrote: > > I am running FBSD4.x on various machines. Can I run > > Lilo (the Linux loader) under FreeBSD using > > Linux emulation? > > No. Lilo runs before Linux starts up, and so is not a candidate for > emulation. No, he means the lilo program that installs the boot loader. The could conceivably work, but I'd be loath to try it. Actually, I like the FreeBSD loader much better myself; I actually ran Linux with the FreeBSD boot loader for a while before switching entirely back to FreeBSD. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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