From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 13:27:46 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 14EBF37B405 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88A543E75 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:27:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 3068D4FC8A; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:27:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B6E4A0D for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:27:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:27:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting a drive bootable In-Reply-To: <200208091004.28182.bts@babbleon.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:04:28 -0400 > From: Brian T. Schellenberger > To: John Bleichert > 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. 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