Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is > > generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But > > that is the same. > > IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft t

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread RW
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is > generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But > that is the same. IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term. I'm being v

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread RW
On Saturday 10 June 2006 11:55, Hunter Fuller wrote: > On 10 Jun 2006, at 11:45 AM, julien Chaffraix wrote: > > Hello, > > chainloader +1 > > Well, this is a different way to do it, usually this is used with > Microsuck products... but I suppose it'd work here too. If you chainload you don't need

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-06-10 22:44, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > much excised --- > > > Anyway, this all works just fine. The MBR and initial boot > > > record in the boot sector of each slice (or primary > > > partition if you must degrade to MS terminology) have just > > > enough standa

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Beech Rintoul wrote: Maybe it can be a FAQ. How do they get there? jerry I'd ask that question on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. I've never submitted anything to any of the docs, so I have no clue what their procedure is. Beech Probably something like this: 1. Chat it up on the d

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 10 June 2006 18:44, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > much excised --- > > > > > Anyway, this all works just fine. The MBR and initial boot record in > > > the boot sector of each slice (or primary partition if you must degrade > > > to MS terminology) have just enough standardization t

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
> much excised --- > > Anyway, this all works just fine. The MBR and initial boot record in > > the boot sector of each slice (or primary partition if you must degrade > > to MS terminology) have just enough standardization that the FreeBSD MBR > > or most any of the other more fancy ones,

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 10 June 2006 18:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >> Hello; > > >> If I want to set up a dual boot of either Linux or FreeBSD, what is > > >> the > > >> best way to go about it? > > >> Use Lilo, grub, or does FreeBSD have a boot loa

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > On Jun 10, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >> > >> Hello; > >> If I want to set up a dual boot of either Linux or FreeBSD, what is > >> the > >> best way to go about it? > >> Use Lilo, grub, or does FreeBSD have a boot loader that it likes > >> better > >> and Linux won't o

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 10 Jun 2006, at 11:45 AM, julien Chaffraix wrote: Hello, I have made the same configuration (Debian and FreeBSD). I used Grub and it works very well, here is the entry in menu.lst: I'll tell you which of these were different and why... title FreeBSD root(hd0,0)

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello; > If I want to set up a dual boot of either Linux or FreeBSD, what is the > best way to go about it? > Use Lilo, grub, or does FreeBSD have a boot loader that it likes better > and Linux won't object to? Mabye you are using the term 'boot loader' for what I am used to seeing called t

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread julien Chaffraix
Hello, I have made the same configuration (Debian and FreeBSD). I used Grub and it works very well, here is the entry in menu.lst: title FreeBSD root(hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 savedefault boot (It is strange that the entry is not the same as the previous answer !?

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-09 Thread Hunter Fuller
Grub does well for me. Set it up for Linux and then set it up for BSD, making sure the UFS driver's in there. Here's my command-list for booting FBSD. root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader boot I might have the spacing wrong, I'm doing it from memory, but the data's all there. On 10 Jun 20

dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-09 Thread jekillen
Hello; If I want to set up a dual boot of either Linux or FreeBSD, what is the best way to go about it? Use Lilo, grub, or does FreeBSD have a boot loader that it likes better and Linux won't object to? i'm planning on using Debian on a separate bootable hard drive. I have to get more info on w