Re: [Sheflug] FreeBSD and Linux.

[Paul Sims <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This probably won't help at all :)
I used to play around with multi-boot systems. This might sound a really
OTT solution... I found the bootloader from BeOS was the canine's
danglies when it came to reliably booting all manner of OS'es. At one
point I had Mandrake, Suse, FreeBSD, BEOS & Win95 booting on the same
box. 

A slightly less OTT solution might be to use the FreeBSD boot manager,
which is a bit of a pain to configure at installation but is worth it.
It will happily chain to a lilo boot sector. You might also look at
grub, which is expressly designed to do this multi-OS boot stuff.

On 04 Oct 2001 22:59:47 +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

Paul.


 

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