From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 4:37:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AEC737B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 04:37:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 61609 invoked by uid 100); 13 Feb 2001 12:37:34 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14985.10894.260985.400209@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:37:34 -0600 To: Gary Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lilo and FreeBSD - triple boot help pls In-Reply-To: <33983044@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary types: > fired it up again. Lilo accepted this without errors, and upon reboot, > lilo shows me BSD, but it will not boot, for some reason, BSD will not > boot, telling me I have a read error. The other 2 OSs, are fine. > > Can some one help, so I can enjoy my BSD? I have checked HOWTO's, etc, > based on what I found in this group's archives, made the changes, but > to no avail as the read error upon booting into BSD. I know I've seen instructions on the FreeBSD web site about setting up LILO to boot BSD, so you might double check the FAQ and Handbook, and maybe search the mail list archives. On the other hand, the Linux distributions I've seen lately have used GRUB instead of lilo. You can probably find an RPM for that, in which case the instructions for booting FreeBSD (since the Linux GRUB installers I've seen didn't know how to do this) are (from the grub docs, change the drive info): root (hd0,1,a) kernel /boot/loader boot One warning - don't install grub on a file system so poorly designed it needs to be defragmented regulary. Defragmenting it will screw up the grub install. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message