From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 8:36: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nyct.net (bsd4.nyct.net [216.139.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F06237B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd1.nyct.net (root@bsd1.nyct.net [216.139.128.3]) by mail.nyct.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA22285; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:35:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mbac@nyct.net) Received: from localhost (mbac@localhost) by bsd1.nyct.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA94861; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:36:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mbac@nyct.net) X-Authentication-Warning: bsd1.nyct.net: mbac owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:36:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Bacarella To: "Gary T. Corcoran" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Linux with FreeBSD booter (hack needed) In-Reply-To: <39ADF00C.EEE4C3A@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a notebook PC with Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD on it. > I installed the FreeBSD booter into the Master Boot Record (MBR). > Using that, I can boot Windows or FreeBSD. But Linux doesn't > show up as a boot choice, because I installed it into a "dos > extended" partition (slice), to keep linux from (ridiculously) > eating up half (two) of the tiny number of disk slices (it normally > wants a whole partition (slice) just for swap). This way linux > only takes up one of the four slices. Use a swap file instead, or even do without swap if you have the RAM. Also, I'm pretty sure you can enable a compile time option so that Linux can use BSD slices, which may or may not make a difference in your case (pre-boot/boot stage). -MB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message