From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 15:05:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BB3106567D for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:05:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dm-lists@meisternet.ch) Received: from mercury.meisternet.ch (mercury.meisternet.ch [62.65.147.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2565F8FC12 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:05:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dm-lists@meisternet.ch) Received: by mercury.meisternet.ch (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 150B7B833; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:06:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:06:07 +0200 From: Dominik Meister To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080815150607.GA12403@mercury.meisternet.ch> References: <35F6662A46BD4D189F961D48D051FDDC@jarasoft.net> <20080811164915.GA3127@sentinelchicken.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080811164915.GA3127@sentinelchicken.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:05:56 -0000 --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jason W. Morgan [Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:49:15PM -0400]: > GRUB menu. It's not difficult, but it does add an extra step. Also, be > sure to keep a backup of your modified GRUB config---it seems that > each time Ubuntu decides it needs to perform a significant update, it > replaces the GRUB config with the default, making FreeBSD once again > inaccessible. There is probably a way to prevent this, but I never got > around to investigating it. Just for the records: The way to prevent this is very simple. Just add custom entries to menu.lst outside of the section marked by the following lines: ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below =2E... ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST (never mind the mentionning of Debian, this has been copied from a Ubuntu machine) br, Dominik --=20 Dominik Meister My public GnuPG key is available at http://www.meisternet.ch/gpg.txt --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkilm18ACgkQVD1CCgD/XK1pCwCfTzUlrCgqibIJsNHTaauf8Wa0 +MUAniyf8vQKbKjXqaCb4alPc08ESH2b =cjN/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga--