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From: Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD stanza for LILO needed
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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