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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.ti.com!news.dseg.ti.com!sc10!eck From: eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com (Terry Eck (@sc10)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Booting FreeBSD using lilo, Possible? Date: 4 Dec 1995 18:19:26 GMT Organization: Texas Inc., Dallas, Texas Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <49ve3e$njd@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> Reply-To: eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sc10.dseg.ti.com Keywords: FreeBSD, Linux, lilo Hi- I have been running various flavors of Linux for the past couple of years. I have recently become interested in trying FreeBSD on my system. Over the weekend I tried installing the base system (/FreeBSD/bin) on a partition of my third hard drive. During install i chose not to install any boot manager, thinking I could somehow use lilo, and because I did'nt want to screw up my OS/2 bootmanager configuration. The install appeared to go ok but when I rebooted my boot partition as hosed. The system halted with a single line (huge letters) at the top of the screen. I rebooted OS/2 and reinstalled the Boot Manager. I think FreeBSD has been installed but I have no way to boot it. Linux won't let me mount the partition (wrong fs support), OS/2 Boot Manager won't boot from a third drive, and I don't know how to change lilo (if that's even possible). Can anyone help me out. I'd really like to get a basic FreeBSD system running without changing too much of my current setup. Regards, Terry eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com