As part of a research project at the university where I work, we need to
have both FreeBSD and Linux installed on the same system in a dual-boot
configuration (we'll be doing some network statistics gathering so we need
at least two different tcp stacks to work with).
The installation of this system was trivial, and with console access,
everything is fine -- we're using System Commander as the initial boot
loader, so everything works.
The problem is that we need a way to reboot from Linux into FreeBSD
remotely. In the past, with a similar configuration, I set up LILO to boot
bsd with an entry like this:
other=/dev/hda2
label=bsd
So that one could do a 'lilo -R bsd' before rebooting and have lilo boot
FreeBSD when the system came up.
Unfortunately, this isn't working on the current system: attempts to boot
FreeBSD from lilo result in the following error:
Loading bsd
Boot error
Oddly enough, we've run into another problem -- with both BSD disklabel
support and UFS support compiled into the kernel, we ought to be able to
see (and mount) BSD filesystems. However, the kernel doesn't appear to
recognize any of the slices on the BSD partition.
This shows up in dmesg:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 >
hda1 is a DOS partition for System Commander, hda2 contains the BSD
installation, and hda3 is an extended partition containing the Linux
installation.
This problem is especially frustrating because a similar configuration used
to work just fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-- Lars
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