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From: kopti@seas.gwu.edu (Juzer T. Kopti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: BSDI and Linux's LILO
Date: 16 Feb 1996 05:23:36 GMT
Organization: George Washington University
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I have a 1gig drive as my primary and a 850meg as my secondary. The 1gig
is shared by Win95 and Linux and I use Linux's boot manager, LILO to
select either of the two. I just loaded BSD/OS v2.1 on my 850meg (fully
dedicated to BSD/OS). I then booted linux to reinitialise LILO to add
for the third OS installed. Basically the BSDI part in lilo.conf looks like
below.

# BSDI bootable partition begins
other = /dev/hdb
  label = bsdi
  table = /dev/hdb
  loader = /boot/wdboot
# BSDI bootable partition ends

I have to specify in the loader line the exact boot blocks indicating
where BSD/OS would commence booting from /dev/hdb. Since I cannot even
directly boot to BSDI, can someone tell me what is the appropriate entry
to use for the 'loader' line which would indicate the boot blocks ??

Thanx

Juzer