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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:26:14 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Christian Schramm <schrammos@t-online.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bootloader
Message-ID:  <20011112232614.GA72818@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <000e01c16bd0$bd2c9630$54cce1d9@machine>
References:  <000e01c16bd0$bd2c9630$54cce1d9@machine>

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In the last episode (Nov 13), Christian Schramm said:
> Does anyone have an idea what to do to modify the bootloader to
> notify about a new OS. I've got a system with Win2000 and FreeBSD 4.4
> on it. Now I've got to install a Linux distribution, too, due to
> developing things. I want to install Linux without the lilo
> bootloader and then want the BSD bootloader to boot Linux, too...
> Does anyone know what to do with the BSD bootloader? Thx, Chris

Configure LILO to install in your Linux partition's bootblock instead
of the MBR.  Then it will simply show up as another F? option in
Booteasy.  I believe Debian does this by default.  Dunno about the
other distributions.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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