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Date:      Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:50:24 +0200
From:      "Thomas Widlundh" <tw@ettnet.se>
To:        "Lorin Lund" <wbs@infowest.com>
Cc:        "freeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Lilo question
Message-ID:  <000101c21cf9$3d6f1640$34056dd4@chappe2>
References:  <04069371ZAA62XQPPJB9L54ML53KE.3d1967f6@Presarionb>

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>I suppose you are referring to the multi-boot loader that is
>available with FreeBSD install.  It isn't called Lilo but it
>can load slackware off of your second disk.
>
>You should see a menu listing F1 for your first bootable partition,
>F2 for your second bootable partition (on disk 1) ...   and F5 to
>look at your second drive.
>
>You can use the multi-boot loader that comes with FreeBSD or
>you can use Lilo.  I'm sure either one will work.
>
Hi again,
Earlier, with only one HDD and freeBSD only, I had this F1 showing up.
But now, after
having added a second HDD, there is no F1 at all. The loader just
starts with some
text about the loader itself, and finally there is a prompt.
Now I boot Slackware on the second HDD by a diskette, but I think it
would be nice
to be able to choose the OS I want to boot in the loader menu. But how
am I
achieving this? I've read about boot, loader, loader.conf, but I'm not
able to
figure it out.


6/25/2002 3:56:18 PM, "Thomas Widlundh" <tw@ettnet.se> wrote:
>>On my machine I have freeBSD on the first HDD and Slackware on the
>>second.
>>Can I somehow make the BSD Lilo to start the Slackware on disk 2
>>(/dec/hdb)?
>>Should I let Slackware install its own lilo?







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