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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!tubsibr!petri From: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can Linux and FreeBSD coexist (peacefully) Date: 1 Aug 1995 14:47:37 GMT Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 37 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vleq9$232@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> References: <alegre.807056451@mars.superlink.net> <3vg8qe$e1c@trauma.rn.com> Reply-To: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri) NNTP-Posting-Host: achill.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de >>I would like to use LILO to choose at boot time between >>Linux and FreeBSD. My lilo.conf to do exactly this is appended. Lilo doesnt know about FreeBSd and just passes vontrol on to its boot sector, like it would do for DOS or whatever. Note however, that you need to install FreeBSD in an fdisk partition on its own, it can't access the ext2fs partitions. # LILO configuration file # generated by 'liloconfig' and hacked by hand # # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/sda #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. delay = 50 vga = normal # force sane state ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting # End LILO global section # FreeBSD bootable partition config begins other = /dev/sda3 label = FreeBSD alias = bsd table = /dev/sda password = foobar restricted # FreeBSD bootable partition config ends # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/sda2 label = Linux alias = l read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking password = foobar restricted # Linux bootable partition config ends