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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:46:23 -0700
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to boot FreeBSD and linux from FreeBSD MBR?
Message-ID:  <508C724F.8090203@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <508BAC7E.5090406@gmail.com>
References:  <508B6D9D.9050103@rawbw.com> <508BAC7E.5090406@gmail.com>

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On 10/27/2012 02:42, matt wrote:
> This means you have grub2. It is slow as molasses and has to be the mbr.
> You could chainload freebsd's partition under a separate entry, like
> Windows The partition bootcode for FreeBSD will boot it from there. You
> can also boot loader or kernel directly from grub, your choice.

So you are saying I can't keep BSD MBR and boot linux from under it when 
linux uses grub2?

Is it still possible to still use lilo? I vaguely remember that it used 
to work like this.

Yuri



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