Date: 14 May 2000 09:46:30 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lilo->Freebsd Message-ID: <m266shjd09.fsf@reader.ptw.com> In-Reply-To: Zhihui Zhang's message of "Sun, 14 May 2000 12:07:39 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0005141206330.15879-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> writes: > On Sat, 13 May 2000, TRBishop wrote: > > > Hello, > > Quick question, , but will Lilo boot freebsd? I know in Yast, the > > We use LILO to boot FreeBSD 3.3 and Linux for a while. > > -Zhihui I do this on a machine running FreeBSD-RELEASE-3.2 and Redhat Linux 6.2. I found good instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN1856 On my setup I have Lilo installed in first HDD. I installed FreeBSD on 2nd HDD. So let FreeBSD install routine put the FreeBSD boot loader on MBR of 2nd HDD. Then added the lines in lilo.conf (on linux bootup) other=/dev/hdc2 table=/dev/hdc label=FreeBSD An example of a full lilo.conf might look like: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=5 prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=rh6.2 read-only root=/dev/hda7 other=/dev/hdc2 table=/dev/hdc label=bsd other=/dev/hda1 label=win table=/dev/hda One gotcha here is that the FreeBSD partition must be mounted while in linux to let lilo write its instructions when you call "/sbin/lilo" So: `mount -tufs /dev/hdc2 /mnt' Setting the BSD partitions device name where I have "hdc2" Assuming your linux kernel supports "ufs" (Freebsd's fs type) Then when booting I just select "FreeBSD" at the Lilo prompt and the Freebsd boot loader does the rest. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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