Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 13:13:50 -0800 From: Carl Weidling <cpw@rahul.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Questions about booting from floppy to use CD-Rom system Message-ID: <199711232113.AA22960@waltz.rahul.net>
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Hi, First of all, I want to thank you for providing FreeBSD for free. I have been using linux for awhile, but I want to try FreeBSD as well. I got a 4 CD distribution of 2.2.5 from Walnut Creek CD-Rom and installed it on the 2nd partition of my 2nd hard drive. I have linux on the 2nd partition of my first hard drive and when I want linux, I boot into dos (first partition of 1st hard drive) and use loadlin to boot into it. I have an atapi CD-Rom drive, and the 2 hard drives are EIDE on one controller. FIRST question: When I installed FreeBSD, it changed my MBR so that it gives me choices, if I hit F1 it goes to DOS, if I hit F5 it goes to my 2nd hard drive and gives me F2 as a choice for FreeBSD. Those work fine, but there are choices that specify linux, only they don't work. It would be nice if it really could let me choose linux, is that a possibility? SECOND question: The 2nd CD-rom of the set I got from Walnut Creek is supposed to be a 'live file system' that you can use by specifying some option from the boot floppy. Maybe that doesn't work when the CD-Rom is atapi but it would certainly be nice for doing repairs, like changing fstabs when I move the jumpers around on the backs of my hard drives). Actually, it would be nice to just have a loadlin like utility to run from DOS to let me boot this or that O/S, does such a thing exist for FreeBSD? -TIA Carl Weidling
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