From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 18 13: 8: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-50-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB95014F72 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:07:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id WAA12447; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:07:18 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199906182007.WAA12447@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Dual boot with LINUX In-Reply-To: <199906181638.MAA05337@etinc.com> from Dennis at "Jun 18, 1999 11:30:54 am" To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:07:15 +0200 (SAST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dennis wrote: > Can linux be booted using the freebsd boot manager? Lilo always seems to > want to install itself. Provided you install Linux in a primary fdisk partition (slice 1-4), it should work OK. The RedHat default is to install to an extended fdisk partition, and we don't support booting from those. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message