From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 06:48:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570BA16A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:48:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.360is.com (mail.360is.com [217.199.177.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA0143D55 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:48:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@probably.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.360is.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD44ED0007; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:48:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.360is.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (careful.360is.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24612-01; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:48:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mindless.probably.int (81-178-215-171.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.215.171]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.360is.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443B3D0003; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:48:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Phillips To: greg Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:48:20 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040130022305.4b1e5e37@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <1075437327.636.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1075437327.636.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401301448.20108.mark@probably.co.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at 360is.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:48:35 -0000 On Friday 30 January 2004 4:35 am, greg wrote: > > Try something like: > > Replace in /boot/grub/grub.conf something like: > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > title BSD/UN*X FreeBSD 5.1 (UFS2) > > root (hd1,0,a) > > kernel /boot/loader > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > to: > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > title BSD/UN*X FreeBSD 5.1 (UFS2) > > root (hd1,0,a) > > chainloader +1 > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > It is supposed to work. If not, post on rofug@rofug.ro asking about how > > to do it. > > I will research that. When I tried to install grub from ports, It gave > me a message "GRUB does not support booting from UFS (yet)." I do not > have an ext2 filesystem to install GRUB on. Hi Greg, I've just rebooted back into SUSE from FreeBSD. I use Grub to boot them both, and Win2k (for how often it gets used, I might as well dump it ;-)) I can safely say even with UFS2 on 5.2, I can boot with title FreeBSD rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 Windows uses the usual title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive with my partition table looking like... Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1305 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1306 2610 10482412+ a5 FreeBSD /dev/hda3 2611 14592 96245415 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 2611 2741 1052226 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 2742 14586 95144931 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda7 14587 14592 48163+ 83 Linux Cheers, --Mark