Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:36:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net> To: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Linux with FreeBSD booter (hack needed) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008311131130.94585-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> In-Reply-To: <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. Use a swap file instead, or even do without swap if you have the RAM. Also, I'm pretty sure you can enable a compile time option so that Linux can use BSD slices, which may or may not make a difference in your case (pre-boot/boot stage). -MB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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