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To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc: Gary <medmanks@mindspring.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Lilo and FreeBSD - triple boot help pls
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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
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