Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:46:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Tatsu Ikeda <tatsu@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot easy question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808131246020.11633-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35D19192.4508C25@mediaone.net>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Tatsu Ikeda wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed FreeBSD for the very first time, I am duly impressed! > Took a lot of preparation, but when it came time to do it, the install > went flawlessly. It seems like a great system, I haven't seen UNIX for > several years. (Since my days at CMU) > > Anyway, since I now have 3 OS's on my computer, I thought, "What the > heck, I'll see what linux is all about!" and decided to install it. > I downloaded Redhat 5.1 and installed it. > > Unfortunately, boot easy won't "see" my linux partition on my hard drive > (only one). So I have yet to boot linux. (I installed LILO on the boot > sector, not in MBR, because I thought boot easy would be a better boot > manager:) I know it should see all my partitions, because it even saw my > NTFS partition, which had nothing on it, before I deleted it to make > room for linux. Well, now LILO is your boot manager. Boot sector == MBR. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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