Hey aravind!
Well I guess I should have explained it a li'l further. The problem is
that if LILO goes bust when I'm not around. My parents can't do shit.
They'll get really paranoid and you can't expect them to fdisk it eh? Also
if LILO crashes it becomes a case of "The computer crashed becouse of that
silly unix of yours. Can't you just keep it simple " :).
Anywayz we are MAJORLY drifting from the topic. I don't want to use lilo.
So lemme repeat my question. Is there any other os loader which can load
freebsd from the dos mode?, Like loadlin does for linux.?
-rohit
-----Original Message-----
From: Aravind Balasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, December 09, 1999 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] 3 os's / LILO
>Not at all Rohit. I perfectly understand what you apprehensions are. Here
is how i do it at home. Here is my partitioning scheme.
>
>hda1 100mb linux \
>hda2 1gb windows c:
>hda3 2 gb openbsd partition
>.
>.
>.
>
>now my active partition is hda1 and I have installed lilo IN hda1
>
>If at all my linux partition or lilo goes bust all I have to is boot
through any floppy (linux or dos or windows 98) run fdisk and
>just change your active to your primary dos partition and you are back in
business (at least your windows is up and running)
>
>Regards
>
>Aravind
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hey arvind,
>>
>> The problem *is* LILO. Thats the basic problem. If LILO goes bust
,
>> then i'm done. And belive me its happened a few times.
>>
>> -rohit
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aravind Balasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 7:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] 3 os's
>>
>> >> Is there anyway i can boot three os's without using lilo. I have
>> win98
>> >> and linux. I boot into linux using loadlin.Now I am planning to
install
>> >> freebsd . So how do i (can i) boot into freebsd from dos mode. I
don't
>> want
>> >> any boot managers coz my parents use the comp and are very
*technophobic*
>> :)
>> >
>> >Hey rohit
>> >
>> >my mom and dad too use my box at home. I have Win98, linux and openbsd
all
>> in the same box. I use lilo and have configured it to boot
>> >into windows by default ( just add the line default=dos in your
>> /etc/lilo.conf file ) They ( my parents ) aren't even bothered by the
>> >existence of either linux or openbsd because of this configuration. So
try
>> lilo and you'll never even bother about thinking of any
>> >other boot manager.
>> >
>> >Regards
>> >
>> >Aravind
>> >
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