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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