Re: Newbie: linux + FreeBSD

From: Dan K. Kyhl (danky_at_blanospambla.dk.ibm.com)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:57:31 +0100

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 00:53:04 +0000, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Hi everybody
>
> I am completely new to the freebsd world, but I would like to try it
> (with my already existing linux partition). I am building my box from
> scratch so no worry about loosing data. I used fdisk and did this:
>
> Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> hda1 Boot Primary Linux 49.36
> hda2 Primary FreeBSD 22003.89
> hda3 Logical BeOS fs 20003.89
> hda5 Logical Linux 1998.75
> hda6 Logical Linux 75942.76
>
> I read :
> [Sharing swap space between Linux and FreeBSD]
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD-3.html
>
> So I first installed Linux, then reboot, install FreeBSD. But already I
> have question:
> -where should I put the freebsd boot manager ?
<snip>
Don't install any bsd bootmanager at all, you can set up lilo to boot
FreeBSD, that is, select the third option from the menu.
GRUB also works, but only if the /boot is on an UFS filesystem, not UFS2.
I have just tried it myself and it works. But not without problems though!

Dan

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