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From: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>
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To: flupke <flupke@mail.com>
Subject: Re:  building kernel in 4.0
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>From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Apr  5 10:40:17 2000
>Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:36:18 +0200
>
>2) I use lilo to boot my machine. I read that I could choose the
>kernel to boot with the freeBSD boot loader, but can I do this
>with lilo?  Because of course, I'm afraid to build a bad
>configured kernel.

I use LILO all the time to boot my FreeBSD.  Just make a
lilo.conf in Linux that has your boot slice as one of its
targets/stanzas, same as you would for (for example) MS-DOS.

Also make sure you do *not* update the MBR or such during
FreeBSD's install.

This brings me to a question though:
Is there a boot-manager for *BSD that does *not* update the MBR?
For example, I want a "default" boot that does *not* "remember"
the "last OS booted" (& therefore does not update either the MBR
or other similar/related structures, unless I tell it to :).

>Thanks in advance for your answers.
>Flupke

-kc


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