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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:53:05 -0400
From:      Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm>
To:        Matt Heath <matt@thebigchoice.com>, Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD loader and Linux
Message-ID:  <oprtrlyraa0cf2rk@fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <3F37C719.1060306@thebigchoice.com>
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:40:57 +0100, Matt Heath <matt@thebigchoice.com> 
wrote:

>>
>>
>> No, that's correct. You must install either LILO or GRUB in your Linux 
>> partition.
>>
>> (Side note: I have two hard drives -- ad0 has linux (from scratch) and 
>> ad2 has FBSD 5.0.
>> I made ad2 dangerously-dedicated (silly me!) so neither GRUB nor LILO 
>> will work in ad0.
>> So I had to make a boot floppy.)
>>
>>
>>
> http://btmgr.sourceforge.net

Smart Boot Manager and other loaders will need Lilo or Grub installed in 
the Linux kernel partition if not in the MBR.

Jud



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