Date: 27 Apr 2003 20:35:40 -0400 From: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux Message-ID: <1051490140.27294.1.camel@jake> In-Reply-To: <20030428000300.GA11646@teddy.fas.com> References: <20030428000300.GA11646@teddy.fas.com>
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--=-YNmNHLYPmeMP79RR/zWT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 20:03, stan wrote: > I've got a new laptop that I want to dual boot FreeBSD, and Debian Linux > on. >=20 > I installed FreeBSD specifying the boot loader, and then rebooted the > machine. I then installed Debian, specifying to leave the MBR alone, and > install LILO in /target on the linux filesystem partition. >=20 > However now when I reboot, I get a choice for Linux, but pressing that ke= y > (happens to be F3) just beeps. I looked in the handbook, and all I could > find about this was how to make LILO do this. I've run multi boot machine= s > in the past using the FreeBSD bootloader, but it's been a while, and I > forget the details of making it work. >=20 > Would I be better off using LILO or the FreeBSD bootloader (or Grub)? >=20 > How can I make the FreeBSD bootloader work for this? http://gag.sourceforge.net/ I fought with setting up dual-boot for 3 days with no luck. GAG is by far the easiest one out there to set up and customize, imo. --=20 Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> --=-YNmNHLYPmeMP79RR/zWT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+rHdcu3o4GBMSDL4RAuwmAJ9hatq5FQR+UXLZuTaIzi3rraUFzQCfeETc ZogVytxkFBw3RhgvDvQ/HZE= =zYqi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YNmNHLYPmeMP79RR/zWT--
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