From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 9:32:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cmpharm.ucsf.edu (cmpharm.ucsf.edu [128.218.67.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B2437BEF1 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:32:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu) Received: from piglet.ucsf.edu (steve@piglet.ucsf.edu [128.218.67.20]) by cmpharm.ucsf.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e71GWO521387; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from steve@localhost) by piglet.ucsf.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA81516; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:32:35 -0700 From: Steve Sizemore To: Paul Herman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiboot linux + freebsd on two drives Message-ID: <20000801093235.C87514@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> References: <20000727134824.C39397@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:31:30AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the reply, Paul. On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:31:30AM +0200, Paul Herman wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Steve Sizemore wrote: > > > Simple version of my question: "How can I make my second disk, > > containg FreeBSD, bootable?" > > Like you mentioned, BootEasy will do this for you. In order for this > to work, BootEasy needs to be in the MBR of all disks you want to boot > from. BootEasy is in the MBR, of both disks, as far as I can tell, but it still won't boot FreeBSD on the second disk. > > to boot linux, lilo has to be installed in the boot slice > > (partition) rather than the mbr. Makes sense, but there's no > > mention of how to do that. > > In lilo.conf, change: > > boot=/dev/sda > - to - > boot=/dev/sdaX > > where X is the partition number of your linux partition, and then > rerun the lilo command. Then install BootEasy on the MBR of both your > disks (the easiest way is with sysinstall.) > This is good info - thanks. Having done that, I can now boot linux (via LILO) from FreeBSD's BootEasy. I still can't boot FreeBSD, however, which is my real goal. (I still think that the problem is with boot1 or boot2.) Does anyone know how to make FreeBSD on /dev/da1s1 actually bootable? Thanks. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------#-----#--#####--------------- # # # # Steve Sizemore # # # Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology # # # Box 0450, Room HSE-1285 # # # University of California Medical Center # # # # 513 Parnassus Avenue ##### ##### ##### ####### San Francisco CA 94143-0450 # # # # # steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu ##### ##### (415) 476-6987 FAX: (415) 476-6515 # # # # # -------------------------------------------------------------#####--#------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message