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I have FreeBSD and Slack9. I want to boot Slack and BSD from lilo. I have an Promise Ultra100 Raid card with Slack on IDE1 and BSd on IDE2. My main problem is that I don't know what bootloader bsd uses.
This is my lilo config now:
image =/boot/vmlinuz
root= /dev/hde2
Label = Linux
Distribution: FreeBSD, OBSD maybe Gentoo and Winblech XP
Posts: 291
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FreeBSD and Slackware 9 with GRUB How-to
by 5amYan
I loaded Slack 9 for a friend and really kinda liked it. I figured it was time to explore linux ia little again...So, I finally decided to blow away MS altogether.
The setup
FreeBSD 4.8
Slack 9
GRUB 0.92
I will assume you already have FreeBSD running on a machine. I personally had FreeBSD dualbooting with XPPro. I was using the FBSD boot manager. It didn't seem to want to work so well with linux kernels.....So I go GRUBby.
##Disk set up, this is in BSD for you linux users
/dev/ad0
ad0s1 - FAT hibernation space for XP
ad0s2 - NTFS/HPFS for XPPro
ad0s3a-g - Free BSD
## I installed slack and used fsdisk from the install to del the first two slices
## and cereate the new ones....
## When the time comes choose not to install LILO. Instead finish the install and
##reboot.
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