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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!199.170.183.55!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet From: kdd@speedi.zko.dec.com (Keith D. Dilsworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help getting linux loader (lilo) to boot FreeBSD Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 19:04:10 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, CA, USA Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32c6becf.24609978@usenet.pa.dec.com> References: <32c3c870.3722461@usenet.pa.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 16.136.16.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33311 Update: The only way I was able to get dos, linux and FreeBSD to boot was to put the root partitions on c: with other partitions on the second disk. I also had a mail message asking for help from somebody who was also trying to put free bsd on the second disk. I tried to respond to him but the mail bounced. It would appear that FreeBSD has the root partition built into the config file. This would imply that free bsd could never install any place but on one drive. I seem to recall that Ultrix had a config file parameter "config vmunix root on boot". Does FreeBSD have something simular in kernel.GENERIC?