Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 08:17:37 +0530 From: sac <sac@inf.in> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Richard Knebel <rknebel@suddenlink.net> Subject: Re: grub Message-ID: <e14997e00705291947r7fbbec6fhad600db71ec402e4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070530020933.GA22090@dan.emsphone.com> References: <45ABA6D0-A4FF-4C29-8709-7A1FD41D8DA5@suddenlink.net> <20070530020933.GA22090@dan.emsphone.com>
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On 5/30/07, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (May 29), Richard Knebel said: > > I had freebsd installed on my 1st hardrive withour difficuties. I > > then installed Debian Linux on my 2nd hard drive and the grub > > bootloader overwrote my mbr and now I can only boot debian. How can > > I get my freebsd back ? > > Assuming grub is functional, you might want to just keep it and add > another entry like this: > > title FreeBSD > root (hd1,1,a) > kernel /boot/loader > savedefault > > replacing (hd1,1,a) with whatever "find /boot/loader" at the grub CLI > returns. If your grub doesn't have UFS support, then the find and > kernel commands won't work, and you'll have to chainload to the FreeBSD > slice's bootblock instead of using the "kernel" command. > > If you really want booteasy back, boot into FreeBSD and run "boot0cfg > -B /dev/ad0" (or whatever your 1st hardrive's device is) > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com Boot into your linux box, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst And add the following lines: title FreeBSD root (hd0,1) # this changes based on where on the partition/drive the FreeBSD is installed. chainloader +1 savedefault run, # grub-install /dev/hda # sda if sata disk reboot. this should help to solve your problem
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