Re: lilo and OpenBSD

[Rogerio Acquadro <racquad@led.unicamp.br>]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Kang-Ling Weng wrote:

> Hello debian-user,
> 
>   I have got 2 harddrives
>   hda with Debian
>   hdb with OpenBSD
> 
>   now I am trying to config lilo
>   so that I am to boot into OpenBSD
>   but when adding:
> 
>   other=/dev/hdb1
>         label=OpenBSD
>         read-only
>         alias=3
> 
>   to lilo.conf
>   and run: lilo
>   the output looks like that:
> 
>   Skipping /vmlinuz.old
>   Device 0x0340: Invalid partition table, 1st entry
>   3D address:     0/0/0 (-1)
>   Linear address: 1/0/0 (0)
> 
>   it seems that lilo can't recognize hdb
> 
>   I tried: cfdisk hdb
> 
>   FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive
>   Press any key to exit cfdisk
> 
>   when I pull off the ide cable of my hda my pc boot
>   into OpenBSD so OpenBSD was installed probably
> 
>   what should I modify in lilo.conf so I can boot into OpenBSD??
> 
Is /dev/hdb1 BSD's /boot? I don't know much about *BSD, but I think that 
there should exist /boot. Try to put /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hdb1.

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