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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 2000 09:42:18 -0700
From:      James Kelty <jkelty@digital-impact.com>
To:        Ross A Lippert <ripper@plato.nmia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: booting
Message-ID:  <390327EA.6D9CE8BD@digital-impact.com>
References:  <m12jPOY-0011c9C@plato.nmia.com>

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I assume that you are doing a dula boot, correct? in which case, you can
go ahead and use LILO, but just have it default to you BSD install if
that is what you want. Install Linux first, BSD second. Both OS's are
very nice about no killing other OS's on the Sam disk....

-James


Ross A Lippert wrote:

> Well, my quest to find good docs on booteasy is coming up dry.
>
> Using LILO, however has been satisfactory so far.  But, right now
> that depends on the existing linux system, which might get nuked
> sometime soon.
>
> Has anyone ported lilo to freeBSD?  If so, can one
> run lilo under freeBSD (with linux compat enabled, maybe, or not).
>
> In principle, I can't see why not, but who knows if lilo doesn't use
> some heavy voodoo and won't mangle my mbr if used under BSD.
>
> -r
>
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