Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:56:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help:Lilo killed Beastie!!! Message-ID: <20040608055656.13483.qmail@web51607.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi, I'm currently using freebsd 4.10 and after installing slackware on the primary partition I have reserved for it, when I booted to Freebsd... These are the errors that I have encountered: Problem: ##### Manual root filesystem specification <fstype>:<device> mountroot> I've tried typing ufs:/dev/ad0s1a but nothing happened. The following details might help you to help me: I have a 20gb harddisk with 3 primary partitions, and an extended partition with ntfs logical drives inside it. The primary partitions are: 1st: Dos(mounted before as /dev/ad0s1) 2nd: Freebsd 3rd: unformatted(reserved for slackware) The extended partition is: Extended ntfs partitions(mounted before as /dev/ad0s5 and /dev/ad0s6 respectively) Before I installed slackware, I can see these at the freebsd bootmanager prompt: F1:DOS F3:FreeBSD When I installed slackware, I've chosen not to install Lilo because I already have Freebsd boot manager installed.. So this appeared at boot time: F1:DOS F2:Freebsd(F3 before installing slack) F4:Linux And this is what happened after pressing F4: (beeeep!) nothing happened! So I guess it was a bad idea not to install Lilo! so... I installed it.. and it worked! but after pressing F4, I have found myself inside another boot manager which is Lilo(boot manager inside a boot manager...hmmm..) Finally after getting tired of reading slackwares documentation.. I've returned to my Beastie and then.. the problem which I have stated above have just occurred! Please help me.. I really wanted to learn Linux but never would I want to loose FreeBSD. Its my primary OS. Thanks -jay __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
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