From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 23:55:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11351 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 23:55:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfw-ix14.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix14.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA11346 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 23:55:03 -0800 (PST) From: shegonee@ix.netcom.com Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix14.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA17891; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 01:54:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from irv-ca11-25.ix.netcom.com(204.32.161.185) by dfw-ix14.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma017858; Thu Mar 27 01:54:28 1997 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970327075424.0067e034@popd.ix.netcom.com> X-Sender: shegonee@popd.ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 23:54:24 -0800 To: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Boot Linux swap partition? Cc: andrsn@stanford.edu, rhh@ct.picker.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I read the Multi OS tutorial http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/multios.html. Its great. But I have an additional question. I have two disks on my PC. The first disk has two partitions - one for Windows 95 and one for FreeBSD. I'm using Boot-easy and I can boot up into either just fine. I added a second hard disk and installed Slackware Linux 3.0 with Lilo on it. When I boot up Boot-easy gives me the following menu: F1 . . . Dos F2 . . . FreeBsd F5 . . . disk 2 When I select F5, I get F1 . . . Linux F2 . . . Linux F5 . . . disk 1 Problem: F1 starts Linux just fine. F2 doesn't do anything. I have the second disk split up into a Linux Native partition and a swap partition. I think Lilo is detecting the swap partition and presenting it as bootable. This isn't correct is it? How do I make the swap partition invisible? Kirk :)