From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 11 5:50:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (smtp2.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F43237B419 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 05:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p537.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.201.101]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fABDoD811363; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:50:13 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:50:08 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two FreeBSDs on same disk, booting secondary slice? Message-Id: <20011111145008.708af364.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <3BEE8243.1115.97AA66@localhost> References: <3BEE8243.1115.97AA66@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:50:59 +0100 "Torfinn Ingolfsen" wrote: > The problem is, when FreeBSD boots, it automatically takes the > first FreeBSD slice and boots from that. Eh, it's been a while but my multibooting machines always offered me F1 for this, F2 for that and so forth just using the standard FreeBSD booteasy. If you are using DOS style MBRs and no boot manager then you need to install a boot manager. > For info, I'm using LILO as the boot loader, and I specify the correct Ah, I see. > partition ("slice") there, slice 3 is hda3 and slice 4 is hda4. But, > when the FreeBSD boot loader starts, it still boots the first > FreeBSD slice. For various reasons, I do not wish to use booteasy, > if I can avoid it. How about grub then. It sounds like a LILO problem. I've never tried booting BSD with LILO. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message