Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:32:35 -0700 From: Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> To: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiboot linux + freebsd on two drives Message-ID: <20000801093235.C87514@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007281125230.258-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:31:30AM %2B0200 References: <20000727134824.C39397@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007281125230.258-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>
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Thanks for the reply, Paul.
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:31:30AM +0200, Paul Herman wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Steve Sizemore wrote:
>
> > Simple version of my question: "How can I make my second disk,
> > containg FreeBSD, bootable?"
>
> Like you mentioned, BootEasy will do this for you. In order for this
> to work, BootEasy needs to be in the MBR of all disks you want to boot
> from.
BootEasy is in the MBR, of both disks, as far as I can tell, but it
still won't boot FreeBSD on the second disk.
> > to boot linux, lilo has to be installed in the boot slice
> > (partition) rather than the mbr. Makes sense, but there's no
> > mention of how to do that.
>
> In lilo.conf, change:
>
> boot=/dev/sda
> - to -
> boot=/dev/sdaX
>
> where X is the partition number of your linux partition, and then
> rerun the lilo command. Then install BootEasy on the MBR of both your
> disks (the easiest way is with sysinstall.)
>
This is good info - thanks. Having done that, I can now boot linux
(via LILO) from FreeBSD's BootEasy. I still can't boot FreeBSD,
however, which is my real goal. (I still think that the problem is with
boot1 or boot2.)
Does anyone know how to make FreeBSD on /dev/da1s1 actually bootable?
Thanks.
Steve
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