Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:40:22 -0600 From: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Gary <medmanks@mindspring.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lilo and FreeBSD - triple boot help pls Message-ID: <3A896376.DBFAA54A@journalstar.com> References: <14985.10894.260985.400209@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > > Gary <medmanks@mindspring.com> 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. > There is a little GRUB tutorial-thingy on http://www.daemonnews.org/ > 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. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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