Re: [Sheflug] FreeBSD and Linux.

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about CHOS?

It's a boot manager similar to the BeOS one, but Linux native. I have not
used it for a while, so it may have some issues (most likely LBA drives
and ReiserFS issues) but it may be a solution?

Failing that, there's always grub :)

Craig

On 6 Oct 2001, Paul Sims wrote:

> 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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