Re: [Sheflug] FreeBSD and Linux.

["Chris J/#6" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've been playing with FreeBSD4.4 on one drive, with Redhat on the
> other disk, and I'm having hellish times trying to get LILO to boot to
> FreeBSD. It hangs with L? after I enter 'freebsd' at the LILO: prompt.
> 
> Here's my lilo.conf:
> 
> boot=/dev/hde
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=30
> default=linux
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.10
>         label=linux
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hde5
>         append="hdd=ide-scsi"
> 
> other=/dev/hdg1
>         label=freebsd
> 

>From what I can drag from the dregs of memory, when I had 4.0 on my 
machine, this is all I used for Lilo and it was fine. Hmmm... a cursory 
search on groups.google.com jogs my memory.

Try adding the line:

	table=/dev/hdg

To the 'other' section so you have:

	other=/dev/hdg1
		label=freebsd
		table=/dev/hdg

and see what that does.

Chris...

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