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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.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!rcogate.rco.qc.ca!neon.mlink.net!news From: Gomer Was Here <root@gomer.mlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Installing FreeBSD 2.1 on a Linux/Win95 machine? Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 01:05:21 -0400 Organization: Har Har Lines: 38 Message-ID: <31B7B891.6FE5AE90@gomer.mlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gomer.mlink.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; Linux 1.99.14 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20826 comp.os.linux.setup:58500 Hello, I have a P120 configured with two EIDE drives and one empty SCSI-2 drive (on an AHA-2940UW). The SCSI-2 drive is working perfectly fine under Linux 1.99.x. However, I would like to try out FreeBSD 2.1 to compare the two on the same PC. I picked up a Walnut Creek CDROM of FreeBSD 2.1 the other day. I managed to get it to install fully. At the time of installation, I did not specify a boot manager because I currently have LILO handling my two EIDE drives (Win95 on one and Linux on the other). I added an entry in LILO for the SCSI-2 drive (BSD), and it finds the kernel, boots up until the point where it tries to mount / and then a kernel panic occurs. The only thing I can do at this point is reboot. Might this be a LILO problem (I'm not entirely sure its configured properly to handle the FreeBSD drive) or something didn't install properly on the SCSI-2 drive? Here are the entries I have in /etc/lilo.conf: # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hdb1 label = Linux read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking other = /dev/sda1 label = BSD table = /dev/sda loader = /boot/chain.b # Linux bootable partition config ends # DOS bootable partition config begins other = /dev/hda1 label = MSDOS table = /dev/hda # DOS bootable partition config ends Thanks. Greg.