[CLUE-Tech] Dual-Booting FreeBSD and RedHat

[Michael Clark]

it should boot the same as the other OS's, just copy and paste, and change
the 'label' and the 'image'.  run lilo to write the mbr and reboot.

rather strange that the freebsd boot loader should fail, but you can tell
BSD to leave your bootloader alone in the install, and save the trouble

another option is the boot floppy for the 'experimental' OS and MBR for
the 'real' OS

mc

B O'Fallon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a machine to dual-boot between Red Hat 7.0 and
> FreeBSD 4.0. I've installed RH first, then FreeBSD, with partitions as
>
> follows:
>
> Linux /boot (23 MB)
> FreeBSD (3 GB)
> Linux /
> Other linux partitions (home, usr, var, tmp, etc)
>
> When I installed FreeBSD, I had it put its boot loader in the MBR.
> Previously, I had done this, and found that it picked up Linux when it
>
> did and allowed dual booting. This time, however, it displays as
> follows:
>
>     F1 --- Linux
>     F2 --- FreeBSD
>     F3 --- Linux
>
> But the only one that works is F2, which does boot FreeBSD. The others
>
> simply beep when the key is pressed.
>
> Anyway, I'd much rather use LILO to do this.
>
> Could anyone tell me the entries I need in the /etc/lilo.conf file to
> add Free BSD to boot it as well as whatever else I need to do (e.g.,
> which files to copy from the BSD partition to the Linux /boot)?
>
> Thanx.
>
> BOF
>
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