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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help ! - I can't boot my freeBSD Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 14:44:41 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31A8D0C9.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <HULTHAGE.96May25090849@hollywood.cinenet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Ingemar Hulthage <hulthage@hollywood.cinenet.net> Ingemar Hulthage wrote: > The problem is that I have Linux and Lilo installed on my first > HD and I need to have both systems working, for a while, in > order to migrate from Linux. You should have installed the FreeBSD boot manager (you can still do this from DOS, or you could simply re-install FreeBSD and this time select the boot manager option for the first drive). Using this boot manager, you'll be able to boot into FreeBSD or Linux without hassles (I do this all the time). > but booting from a floppy would be acceptable. However, I don't know > how to create a FreeBSD boot floppy that doesn't insist on making a > new installation. :-) You're just not quick-fingered enough - at the "boot:" prompt, type "hd(0,a)/kernel" instead of letting it fall-through to booting off the floppy. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project