Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-08 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Johnson David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:21 pm, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: hi all. I added a 2 GB linux disk as a slave and installed Mandrake Linux with LILO on the root partition of linux. So far this is correct. LILO needs to be on the *root* partition. No, it

Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-08 Thread Johnson David
On Thursday 08 April 2004 04:40 pm, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: So far this is correct. LILO needs to be on the *root* partition. No, it doesn't. It only needs to be on some boot record: the MBR or the BR of one of the 4 primary partitions. It was once common to put it on a small /boot

Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-07 Thread RazorOnFreeBSD
I had this issue between linux and windows and I had to install Lilo on the first disk only because bios is giving the hand to the first disk and from there you can setup your boot loader to recognize all systems available and where they are. I am not a specialist there, I just tell you what

Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
I had this issue between linux and windows and I had to install Lilo on the first disk only because bios is giving the hand to the first disk and from there you can setup your boot loader to recognize all systems available and where they are. I am not a specialist there, I just tell you

Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-07 Thread Johnson David
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:21 pm, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: hi all. I added a 2 GB linux disk as a slave and installed Mandrake Linux with LILO on the root partition of linux. So far this is correct. LILO needs to be on the *root* partition. I am trying configure Boot Easy to boot linux.

Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-07 Thread Johnson David
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:56 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: If I understand what you are asking - FreeBSD on disk0 and Linux on disk1, then you need to install an MBR and a standard book sector on disk 0. But the standard boot sector will not boot to disk 1. Quoting from the Handbook: If

Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-07 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Tadimeti Keshav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all. I added a 2 GB linux disk as a slave and installed Mandrake Linux with LILO on the root partition of linux. I am trying configure Boot Easy to boot linux. Since FreeBSD occupies all of the 1st HD, should I install a STANDARD boot loader on