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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)

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