From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 22:15:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from desh.cse.iitd.ernet.in (mailer.cse.iitd.ac.in [202.141.68.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0D337B424 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cse.iitd.ernet.in (root@poorvi.cse.iitd.ernet.in [10.20.3.12]) by desh.cse.iitd.ernet.in (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA17406; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:48:01 +0530 Received: from localhost (csu96154@localhost) by cse.iitd.ernet.in (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA28013; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:48:17 +0530 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: csu96154 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:48:16 +0530 (IST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan X-Sender: csu96154@localhost.localdomain To: Jeronimo Pellegrini Cc: Safir Secerovic , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi OS installation In-Reply-To: <86u2cbxwuk.fsf@mpcnet.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That's exactly what I'm doing! (Actually, I run FreeBSD 4.1 and Debian > woody) I have RedHat 6.2 and FreeBSD 3.4 on my machine. > I had Debian installed first, then just installed FreeBSD to a primary > partition, and set my boot manager to let me choose the OS. I had installed FreeBSD first, and then RedHat. But, I couldn't get FreeBSD's BootEasy to boot into Linux. Why, I have no idea. Also, like you say later, FreeBSD can't see Linux's logical drives, and my entire Linux installation is in logical drives. Maybe that's why ... Well anyways, I couldn't mail to freebsd-questions during that time, and so I had to resort to the NetBSD mailing list. A person there did offer me helpful suggestion, although I haven't tried them out so far, and so can't say much. The gist of it was that extended drives can be accessed as wd0s5 upwards (ie, primary hdd, slices 5 and upwards). It seems we can even make disklabels in it. But I really haven't tried ... :-( > You may want to check the Linux-and-FreeBSD howto (it's a mini-HOWTO) > in the Linux Documentation Project: > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/ Yes, do check it out. It's got some interesting info. > - Decide which boot manager you'll use. I use the GNU Grub (which is > great) -- so, after I had grub installed under Linux, I installed > FreeBSD, and did *NOT* let it install its boot manager (you'll be > asked this)... Then I jsut added, in my grub conf. file in Linux, an > entry for FreeBSD. Could I have the URL from where you got GRUB, and also any URLs that have documentation/info abt it. I had tried once long ago when I wanted to boot HURD, and that's it. BTW, it case u don't have GRUB, you can always use LILO (supplied alongwith Linux). Check out the manpages/other-docs for more info. Also, I must add: FreeBSD can't mount UFS (or FFS) partitions rw. This means, you can't write to any of FreeBSD's partitions. So if you wan't to share data, you might consider making your home partition/slice ext2fs, and then mount it rw from both. Rakhesh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message