Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!tubsibr!petri From: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot FreeBSD 2.1 with LILO? Date: 5 Apr 1996 10:37:25 GMT Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 42 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4k2t55$t7o@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> References: <4js2br$c13@doc.zippo.com> Reply-To: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri) NNTP-Posting-Host: ares.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de In article <4js2br$c13@doc.zippo.com> cdemps@lsumc.edu writes: >Is anyone using LILO to boot FreeBSD 2.1? For LILO, the FreeBSD partition looks the same as a DOS partition, it simply uses the chain loader to load the boot blocks. # LILO configuration file # generated by 'liloconfig' and hand-enhanced # # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/sda #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. delay = 50 vga = normal # force sane state ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting # End LILO global section # FreeBSD bootable partition config begins other = /dev/sda3 label = FreeBSD alias = bsd table = /dev/sda #password = foo #restricted # FreeBSD bootable partition config ends # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/sda2 label = Linux alias = l read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking #password = bar #restricted # Linux bootable partition config ends # DOS bootable partition config begins other = /dev/sda1 label = MSDOS alias = m table = /dev/sda #password = baz # DOS bootable partition config ends Stefan