From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jan 13 14:58: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC5E37B419 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 14:57:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1 (24-168-24-239.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.239]) by nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with SMTP id g0DMvIuo009848; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:57:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:15:45 -0500 From: Scott Robbins To: "irie_1i0n" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual boot question Message-Id: <20020114141545.1a826ea4.scottro@nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:41:51 -0000 "irie_1i0n" wrote: > het. > pretty new to computers here. > am running redhat 7.2, using lilo as my bootloader. > not sure how to set things up so i can choose between freebsd or > redhat when i boot up. > can anyone assist me here? > thanks As you'll no doubt be told, this should probably be posted on questions, but... :) Since you're running lilo, edit your /etc/lilo.conf Add the following other=/dev/hdX (whatever partition is holding FreeBSD, for example, if it's on the second partition of your first hard drive it'd be /dev/hda2) table=/dev/hda label=FreeBSD Then run lilo /sbin/lilo You should be set HTH Scott Robbins > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message