From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 23 9:43: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from simon.digital-impact.com (simon.responsiblemail.net [216.32.177.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A91B37B880 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 09:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkelty@digital-impact.com) Received: from digital-impact.com (ts035d20.sjc-ca.concentric.net [206.173.231.224]) by simon.digital-impact.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3NGgtT27772; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 09:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <390327EA.6D9CE8BD@digital-impact.com> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 09:42:18 -0700 From: James Kelty X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross A Lippert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message