Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:21:54 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua> To: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> Cc: Lorin Lund <wbs@infowest.com>, freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Lilo question Message-ID: <20020626132011.F14619-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> In-Reply-To: <000101c21cf9$3d6f1640$34056dd4@chappe2>
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Greetings again! /stand/sysinstall there custom install, 'allocate disk space' there give only the command 'W'rite and then You'll b prompted to choose what to write on MBR. Choose BootEasy and proceed. After reboot there must b 'Fx' prompts again. Hope this help, with best regards. Alexander V Zubchenko, E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua System Administrator, WWW: http://www.hermes-comp.zp.ua/ Hermes-comp, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya, Geroev Stalingrada 50 phone/fax: +380 612 64-19-72 On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > > >I suppose you are referring to the multi-boot loader that is > >available with FreeBSD install. It isn't called Lilo but it > >can load slackware off of your second disk. > > > >You should see a menu listing F1 for your first bootable partition, > >F2 for your second bootable partition (on disk 1) ... and F5 to > >look at your second drive. > > > >You can use the multi-boot loader that comes with FreeBSD or > >you can use Lilo. I'm sure either one will work. > > > Hi again, > Earlier, with only one HDD and freeBSD only, I had this F1 showing up. > But now, after > having added a second HDD, there is no F1 at all. The loader just > starts with some > text about the loader itself, and finally there is a prompt. > Now I boot Slackware on the second HDD by a diskette, but I think it > would be nice > to be able to choose the OS I want to boot in the loader menu. But how > am I > achieving this? I've read about boot, loader, loader.conf, but I'm not > able to > figure it out. > > > 6/25/2002 3:56:18 PM, "Thomas Widlundh" <tw@ettnet.se> wrote: > >>On my machine I have freeBSD on the first HDD and Slackware on the > >>second. > >>Can I somehow make the BSD Lilo to start the Slackware on disk 2 > >>(/dec/hdb)? > >>Should I let Slackware install its own lilo? > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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