Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting
Dan Bikle
dan.bikle at gmail.com
Sat Sep 16 16:49:31 PDT 2006
FreeBSD and Linux people,
I have a PC which I want to boot as windows, FreeBSD, and Suse 10.1 Linux.
Currently, FreeBSD boot0 menu shows both Windows and FreeBSD as boot-able.
The FreeBSD boot0 menu does not show the Linux OS (which I just installed).
So, I did some reading of the FreeBSD handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
It suggests that I have 2 ways to solve this problem:
1. Configure the FreeBSD boot0 menu so that it can boot
Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux
Or,
2. Replace The FreeBSD boot0 menu with LILO Boot Manager
I like option 1.
Q1: How do I add Suse 10.1 Linux to the FreeBSD boot0 menu?
As for option 2,
if I want to try LILO, I'll need to toss my FreeBSD boot0 menu in the trash.
Q2: If I cannot get LILO to boot FreeBSD, how do I boot get
FreeBSD to boot and then how do I restore my old FreeBSD boot0 menu?
Thanks,
-Dan
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