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From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much)
Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD using lilo, Possible?
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 04:38:17 GMT
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In article <49ve3e$njd@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com>,
Terry Eck (@sc10) <eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com> wrote:
>let me mount the partition (wrong fs support), OS/2 Boot Manager won't boot from
>a third drive, and I don't know how to change lilo (if that's even possible).
YES!!! It's very good possible, I'm doing it only that way!
Make an entry exactly like that for an ordinary MS-DOS partition,
and let it point to the FreeBSD partition, that's all. (From the
view of a boot manager, FreeBSD seems to behave like MS-DOS - just
as it should be.) (sorry, can't copy the lilo-config from here,
don't wanna reboot now.)
If the FreeBSD installation overwrites Your master bootblock, then simply
reinstall lilo afterwards (keep your linux bootdisk at hand). If some-
thing went wrong with the FreeBSD installation (that is, there is no
bootblock on the FreeBSD partition), then lilo will report an error.
Caveat: I don't have OS/2 and know nothing about it.
Peter
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