Huub wrote:

> Thomas Overgaard wrote:
>> Huub wrote :
>>
>>
>>>boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered)
>>
>>
>> Why this strange setup? Why don't you just remove hda and let your
>> present hdc be hda? Or why don't you power hda and put the bootloader in
>> the mbr at hda?
> Because that harddisk actually has FreeBSD installed and is not part of
> the Slackware installation. So I shouldn't have called it /dev/hda.
> Other pc's with Slack on the third IDE also have either grub or lilo
> installed and have no problem booting from harddisk at all.

If FreeBSD resides on your first HDD, you should be able to add it to LILO
as 'other' (much like dual-booting Windows), then install lilo to tbe MBR
of /dev/hda. The FreeBSD drive superblock will boot when selected by LILO.
Worked for me when I had Linux, BSD and Windows installed.