Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:04:28 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting a drive bootable Message-ID: <200208091004.28182.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208090958120.10214-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208090958120.10214-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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On Friday 09 August 2002 09:58 am, John Bleichert wrote: | On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: | > Did you have Linux install LILO to its own partition? | | No, I didn't install LILO. I couldm but I want to use the BSD bootloader. No, that's not right. To get Linux to work properly, you must intall LILO, but if you want to use the BSD bootloader, you have to install LILO to the Linux boot *partition* (or "slice" as BSD would say) rather than to the boot *sector* of the *drive*. If you don't install LILO at *all*, then the boot will fail when press the F-key for Linux. Which is because Linux can't load without the Linux loader. Which is exactly the behavior you are seeing, of course. | | > 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 | | /* | * John Bleichert | * syborg@stny.rr.com | * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg | */ -- 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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