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Linux & BSD, which bootloader to use?

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bubba

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I am trying to boot a couple of distros of linux and FreeBSD as well. I keep on messing up the boot loaders. Which is the easiest to use? I tried LILO, but I couldn't get it to boot BSD, then I reinstalled BSD and now the BSD loader doesnt boot the Linux partitions. Ugh. Any help?

Thanks!
 

right, I did manually edit lilo. I added it like I would add a DOS partition to boot from, as the BSD is an entire "slice". I put LILO on the MBR. It wouldn't boot.

Then I reinstalled FreeBSD and put its boot loader on the MBR. It saw the linux parition, but wouldn't boot to it. Hmmm..

 
Make your life easier, to configure lilo I would suggest a utility like "liloconfig", or simply do man lilo (that is if you've got the nifty man pages installed). Anyways it'd tell you how to configure a dos partition manually.
 
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