From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 14:05:53 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 88BBE16A4CE for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:05:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2287043D55 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:05:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: sp/0If9TyHN+abCcLXSDQg 1075586721 Received: from dialup-67.74.79.160.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net (dialup-67.74.79.160.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.79.160]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72C34CB3C4; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:05:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:05:18 -0500 To: greg , "Mark Phillips" References: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040130022305.4b1e5e37@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <1075437327.636.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200401301448.20108.mark@probably.co.uk> <1075493388.675.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1075493388.675.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.50 (Win32, build 3556) 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: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:05:53 -0000 On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:09:49 -0600, greg wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:48, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> > [... snip ...] >> 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 > > There is no issue booting kernels on a UFS2 with GRUB. The issue is that > GRUB needs to be installed somewhere. There is more to GRUB than the 512 > bytes on the MBR. It needs to read config files off of a filesystem. > Where are your config files? are they on a UFS2 filesystem? Or are they > on your ext2 file systems? > > If you have have managed to get a GRUB to read it's config files off of > UFS2, let me know, and I will research that area. AFAIK, grub can not > read it's config files off of UFS2 filesystem. BootIt, which I used for a long time, works quite nicely and automagically; so does GAG, and GAG is - not Windows-dependent, for those who care about such things - free as in beer *and* speech, for those who care about such things :) It also works great - I'm running 5 OSs (including -CURRENT on UFS2) on a 3-drive system (2 in RAID-0, one standalone), and GAG has never had the slightest trouble. Enjoy. Jud