Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 06:33:17 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: bootloaders, dual booting freebsd and linux Message-ID: <RNVRJFUS31MK2ZMG2XLHE0WQLJFA64HB.3d539a6d@sparky> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020808114259.019a9fd8@mail.utexas.edu>
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8/8/2002 12:46:44 PM, Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: >Sort of related to the questions about sharing a filesystem between freebsd >and linux. I'm about to do the same thing, have a machine that dual boots >but I want to run a personal web server and have it sharing out the same >content no matter which OS is running. And this is just a personal >machine, I have no experience with NFS nor do I have any machines doing NFS >mounts. From what I've been reading I'll go with ext2 on the shared >filesystem. > >Now to my question. It's been suggested that I let booteasy (that is the >freebsd bootloader right?) do the juggling instead of something like lilo >or grub. Is that right? What are the reasons for this? Does lilo have >problems booting FreeBSD? > > >Any information would be appreciated. If you received an answer on this list, I missed it. Can't tell you about lilo, because I have no experience with it. Grub is in the FreeBSD ports collection, so it should work fine for both. I haven't used Linux, but I know booteasy works for FreeBSD ;), and ISTR reading that it should do fine for Linux as well. Regarding dual booting, I recall some threads on the subject of dual booting Linux and FreeBSD, but offhand can't remember what was said. I'd suggest you do a thorough search with Google and Google Groups just to try to pick up any "gotchas." Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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