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From: drosos@abrdr.dreo.dnd.ca (Tasos Drosopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: [Q] BOOT DOS, LINUX OR FREEBSD FROM HARDDRIVE?
Date: 28 Mar 1996 15:08:12 GMT
Organization: Aerospace Radar and Navigation / DREO / CANADA
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Hello Guys
After a couple of generally happy years with Linux I recently upgraded my
system and now have enough space to try out for myself FreeBSD 2.1.0. I
downloaded the bare minimum /BIN from ftp.freebsd.org, went succesfully (?)
through the installation procedure and now have a minimal freebsd on my second
EIDE hard-drive. I have dos on my first IDE hard-drive and Linux on my second.
At present I have managed to boot from the install bootdisk and have to always
go through the -c option to clear up the 25 conflicts the boot kernel has with
my system hardware. Even though I went through the bootmanager installation
procedure to be able to boot from hard-disk, it didn't seem to take (or is
it put on the 2nd drive's MBR?)
My question: Is it possible to have LILO (the Linux bootmanager I use now)
or one of the FreeBSD's (and how do I install it?) to boot one
of the 3 OS's I have on?
Someone here must have gone this route (Linux --> FreeBSD) to be able to
help me out.
Thanks