Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:27:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting a drive bootable Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208101626300.10886-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <200208091004.28182.bts@babbleon.org>
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > 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 > > 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. <snip> Thanks - that was exactly it. It works like a charm. 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
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