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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!bb-data.de!news!mib From: mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD using lilo, Possible? Date: 11 Dec 1995 10:54:26 GMT Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany Lines: 23 Message-ID: <MIB.95Dec11115426@laforge.bb-data.de> References: <49ve3e$njd@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> <DJ78vt.E9w@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: laforge.ppe.bb-data.de In-reply-to: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org's message of Thu, 7 Dec 1995 04:38:17 GMT In article <DJ78vt.E9w@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) writes: 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. I have Windows NT, Linux and FreeBSD 2.0.5-R all on the same system, and I have some difficulty with using Lilo to boot all three. Linux and Windows NT boot with no difficulty at all, but FreeBSD does not seem to like Lilo in the MBR ?! With Lilo in the MBR, FreeBSD would always get stuck after the sc0 prompt, just before probing the hard disk controller. I now have Lilo in the boot sector of the Linux root partition, and that partition is active. Sometimes, I still see FreeBSD freezing on boot. A sure way to recover is to boot Linux and dd(1) over the MBR from a known-good copy in a file?! Strangely enough, if I do a cmp(1) on the MBR, it is identical to the copy. Very strange. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Martin Ibert, BB-DATA GmbH, Brunnenstraße 111, D-13355 Berlin >> e-mail <mib@bb-data.de>, phone +49-30-245-56582, fax +49-30-245-56577 <<