From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 6:57:41 2002 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 7D89137B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:57:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.southeast.rr.com (smtp2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7467943E6E for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:57:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8 [24.93.67.55]) by smtp2.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g79DwWts021995; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:58:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:57:36 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 2862FBA12; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:57:13 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: John Bleichert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting a drive bootable Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:57:12 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208090957.12720.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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