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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!165.254.2.52!news.new-york.net!actcom!actcom.co.il!baum From: Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il> Subject: Re: FreeBSD stanza for LILO needed In-Reply-To: <m2enb8qzdf.fsf@capecod.net> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: actcom.co.il Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95-heb-2.07.970519010427.23493B-100000@actcom.co.il> To: "Alfredo E. Alvarenga" <aea@capecod.net> Sender: news@actcom.co.il (News) Organization: ACTCOM - Internet Services in Israel References: <m2enb8qzdf.fsf@capecod.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 22:10:00 GMT Lines: 91 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41238 I just can give you my lilo.conf - it works for me :{). I have everything on one IDE hard drive. FreeBSD stanza is the first one. As you see I don't tell anything to LILO except FreeBSD partition. I remember that when I had FreeBSD on second fisical hard drive I needed to play with loader parameter. Good luck! boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 other=/dev/hda3 label=bsd table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.30 label=linux root=/dev/hda6 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.27 label=linux-2.0.27 root=/dev/hda6 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.29 label=linux-2.0.29 root=/dev/hda6 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda On 15 May 1997, Alfredo E. Alvarenga wrote: > I am currently running Slackware Linux 2.0.20. I have it > installed in /dev/sda and use LILO as the boot manager. > > I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on /dev/sdc1 using SYSINSTALL and > when prompted for the MBR choice I chose 'None' in order to keep > usingLILO. I want to get to know FreeBSD by using /dev/sdc as > my sandbox so that I may evaluate it for use in my actual work. > > I don't know what is the name/location of the kernel image I need > for booting FreeBSD under LILO. Any information/pointers as to > what to write in the FreeBSD stanza for LILO would be greatly > appreciated. > > My "lilo.conf" follows: > > # LILO configuration file > # generated by 'liloconfig' > # > # Start LILO global section > boot = /dev/sda > #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. > prompt > vga = normal # force sane state > ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting > # End LILO global section > # Linux bootable partition config begins > image = /vmlinuz > root = /dev/sda2 > label = linux > read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only > # for checking > # Linux bootable partition config ends > # Linux bootable partition config begins > image = /zImage > root = /dev/sda2 > label = new > read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only > # for checking > # Linux bootable partition config ends > > Thanks in advance, > > Alfredo > -- > > Alfredo Alvarenga > Alexander Indenbaum baum@actcom.co.il