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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!news.cybercom.net!ksmm From: ksmm@cybercom.net (The Classiest Man Alive) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding Linux to Win95+FreeBSD Date: 26 Sep 1996 18:15:45 GMT Organization: Cyber Access Internet Communications, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <52eh8h$14m@orion.cybercom.net> References: <5281vk$keg@newton.pacific.net.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell1.cybercom.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ng Pheng Siong (ngps@darkwing.pacific.net.sg) wrote: : I have Win95 and FreeBSD on my notebook, booting with FreeBSD's bootmgr. : I've recently installed Linux; it now boots off a floppy coz I've wary of : having LILO overwrite my boot sector stuff. : How can I boot Linux off the harddisk with FreeBSD's bootmgr? Either boot manager (Linux or FreeBSD) should be able to handle the booting of all three OSes. Just decide which you want to use and go through the setup program to install it; tell the other installer to leave the boot record alone. They will respectfully oblige. As an alternative, I've found that booting from a DOS prompt (using LOADLIN.EXE or FBSDBOOT.EXE) is pretty convenient, and it allows the DOS drivers to initialize any hard-to-configure software so that the other systems can detect them easily at startup. Check the READMEs on how to use these programs. --K.S.