From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 01:49:36 2003 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 3CE2837B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 01:49:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ferengi.borderworlds.dk (borderworlds.dk [62.79.110.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F6F43FE3 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 01:49:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from xi@borderworlds.dk) Received: from borg.borderworlds.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ferengi.borderworlds.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 832265C12 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:49:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by borg.borderworlds.dk (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2D9B33B8008; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:49:31 +0200 (CEST) Sender: xi@borderworlds.dk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200307020336.11184.lists@rhavenn.net> From: Christian Laursen Date: 02 Jul 2003 10:49:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200307020336.11184.lists@rhavenn.net> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: FreeBSD and GRUB? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 08:49:36 -0000 Henrik Hudson writes: > I installed Grub from ports (cvsup'ed from tonight) and can't quite get her > working. > > I am running 4.8rel. > > I copied in the various *stage file into /boot/grub . I created a grub.conf > and sym-linked menu.lst to it and made everything 444. Try having the real file be /boot/grub/menu.lst and make /etc/grub.conf a symlink to that. Personally I don't have any grub.conf and it works fine without it. Grub has very little chance to follow a symlink to another partition in the boot environment. -- Best regards Christian Laursen