Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:57:12 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting a drive bootable Message-ID: <200208090957.12720.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208090925320.10214-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208090925320.10214-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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Did you have Linux install LILO to its own partition? On Friday 09 August 2002 09:29 am, John Bleichert wrote: | Hello All | | After installing and configureing FreeBSD 4.6, I installed RedHat. The | install went fine, and I kept the BSD bootloader. | | Now, everytime I go into sysinstall/fdisk and set the root partition for | linux to be bootable, write it to the mbr, then write the bootloader, it | doesn't stick, meaning that when I reboot, F2 (Linux) just beeps when I | press it, and when I boot into F1 (FreeBSD) and run fdisk again, the | bootable flag on the Linux partition is missing. It doesn't seem to | 'stick' when I make it bootable. | | Any idea what's going on here? I could install LILO or grub and get around | this but I'd rather use the FreeBSD bootloader. | | Thanks - JB | | /* | * John Bleichert | * syborg@stny.rr.com | * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg | */ | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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