Installing a new system....

Robert Storey y2kbug at ms25.hinet.net
Thu May 6 20:23:47 PDT 2004


I've tried LILO for multi-boot Windows/Linux/FBSD, and have found it to be a
headache. You're better off with GRUB, in my opinion. A decent introductory
article about GRUB can be found here:

http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html

regards,
Robert

On Thu, 6 May 2004 12:00:47 +0200
"Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw at withagen.nl> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
> > 
> > Planning to just add FreeBSD to the grub boot menu.
> > 
> >     Steve
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw at withagen.nl>
> > To: <freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org>
> > Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 4:50 PM
> > Subject: Installing a new system....
> > 
> > 
> > > When thing go as planned I'm getting my dual opteron system this week.
> > > So it is time to start planning....
> > > 
> > > What I'm wanting to dump on it:
> > >     FBSD AMD64
> > >     FBSD i386
> > >     Win2K i386
> > >     Win2k x86_???? Beta
> > > perhaps 
> > >     linux-amd64
> > > (note it has a 200Gb disk)
> > > 
> > > What bootmanager should I use.
> 
> Anybody tried LILO for these kinds of excercises??
> 
> --WjW
> 
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