Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:41:32 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Booting Linux with FreeBSD booter (hack needed) Message-ID: <39ADF00C.EEE4C3A@home.com>
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I have a notebook PC with Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD on it. I installed the FreeBSD booter into the Master Boot Record (MBR). Using that, I can boot Windows or FreeBSD. But Linux doesn't show up as a boot choice, because I installed it into a "dos extended" partition (slice), to keep linux from (ridiculously) eating up half (two) of the tiny number of disk slices (it normally wants a whole partition (slice) just for swap). This way linux only takes up one of the four slices. Now since the MBR booter "knows" that you don't boot DOS/Windows from an "extended" partition (type 5), it doesn't offer it as a boot choice. Now I could probably hack the booter (boot0 ?) to accept type 5 as a valid choice. But before I risk losing my whole (work) disk by messing with the MBR :), does anyone know if I do this, and install LILO (the linux loader) into my "extended" partition, will the MBR booter find the LILO booter to really be able to boot Linux? Or will the "extended dos" partition still confuse the MBR booter - that is, not find LILO where it expects it? BTW, I tried using LILO as the MBR booter, but all it does is print "L" and "00 00 " over and over. I'm guessing because it's a large (> 8GB) disk that it's getting confused, as I've used it before (on < 8GB) to boot win/linux/freebsd... Thanks, Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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