Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:37:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu> To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: debian/freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206101435460.12045-100000@cs.selu.edu> In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC038947B5@exchange.Navitaire.com>
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in your grub.conf, the kernel line, does it have the word "single" on it? that is how you tell grub to go into single user mode. jason > Jason, > > I didn't install lilo. I am using grub. What happens is it boots up into a > single user mode with an sh shell. I am not sure why it would do that? > > thanks for your input, > brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason P Holland [mailto:jholland@cs.selu.edu] > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:25 PM > To: Henning, Brian > Cc: freebsd-questions-en > Subject: RE: debian/freebsd > > > > what do you mean by corrupting? lilo doesn't come up? if you telling > debian to install lilo in the MBR, then that is your problem. it needs to > go in the root partition of your linux installation. > > jason > > > messmate, > > i have 3 primary and one extended partitions. I have linux in my extended. > > The real problem is debian. I can install redhat just fine with bsd on the > > system. I can't install debian without corrupting my bsd partition. > > brian > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: messmate [mailto:messmate@free.fr] > > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 1:34 PM > > To: Henning, Brian > > Cc: freebsd-questions-en > > Subject: Re: debian/freebsd > > > > > > Hello, > > YES you can. > > I have win, linux and FreeBSD installed on the same disk. > > My bootmanager is LILO without any pb. > > Remarks: you can have anly 4 primary partitions or 3 primary and 1 > extended > > on the same HD. > > A+ > > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:10:26 -0500 > > "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> wrote: > > > > | Hello- > > | I have one hard drive that I want to have freeBSD and debian Linux exist > > on. > > | I want freebsd in a primary partition and I want linux and linux swap in > > the > > | logical partitions in the extended partition. Every time I try to > install > > | debian, it corrupts my freebsd partition. After that is corrupt I > > reinstall > > | freebsd and I it corrupts my debian partition. Does anyone have a duel > > boot > > | system with these two operating systems on the same disk? is it not > > possible > > | to have debian and freebsd on the same disk? > > | thanks- > > | brian > > | > > | 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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