Very Computer

Must a special configuration be done to enable the FreeBSD "boot manager"
to boot from Linux?  FreeBSD, Linux, and DOS live on my hard disk, but
the BSD boot manager will only start FreeBSD and DOS.  Selecting Linux
causes the selection menu to print again.

Much thanks.

Brent Hetherwick

Basically you need an entry like:

other=/dev/sdb       (Assuming you are booting FreeBSD from 2. SCSI-disk)
    table=/dev/sdb
    loader=/boot/chain.b
    label=FreeBSD

in your lilo.conf. Then you do not need to install BootEasy.

Regards

Georg

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boot=/dev/hd<a,b,c..><1,2,3>

in your lilo.conf. You may, for example, have DOS on hda1 and root on
hda2, in which case you'd have hda2 above.

Unfortunately, you must probably reinstall booteasy after doing this. This means
entering /stand/sysinstall and the partition editor. Do a 'write' and
eventually, reboot the system. Hopefully, booteasy should now find your Linux
partition.

I know this works because I've been using this scheme myself.  Right now,
however, I use lilo to boot whine95, Linux and FreeBSD 2.2.1. I simply installed
FreeBSD without install any bootmanager, and entered in lilo.conf:

/other=/dev/<main slice on which the whole of FreeBSD resides, using Linux
naming convention(not, say, wd1<something>)>

Anders Moe.