Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:42:18 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: John Murphy <freebsd001@freeode.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ubuntu stole my FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20070415144218.GA10621@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <rlv223luf53et5ibag19dqdn9uhvr4en29@4ax.com> References: <rlv223luf53et5ibag19dqdn9uhvr4en29@4ax.com>
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John Murphy wrote: > But thanks to the FAQ entry on booting FreeBSD and Linux using GRUB > at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#GRUB-LOADER > I was able to get it back again (except the file which I edited was > /boot/grub/menu.lst). > > I had resisted the temptation to install any Linux flavour for many > years, but all the talk about Ubuntu had me intrigued. So I decided > to install Xubuntu on my old Packard Bell Easynote. It can only do > 800x600 so the first surprise was that the buttons to proceed from > Ubiquity's location chooser dialogue were hidden behind the lower > task bar. The window could not be re-sized or scrolled and it took > me a while to work out how to move the task bar to the side. The > problem would be much worse for anyone restricted to 640x480 and I > was surprised to find the bug was first reported over a year ago! > > The laptop previously triple booted Windows 2000, FreeBSD and NetBSD > and the fourth primary partition was reserved for data. The NetBSD > slice was to be overwritten with the new installation. Had to create > an 'extended' partition in place of the NetBSD one and then make a > swap and ext2 file system within it. It was going to create mount > points for my FAT slices, which I didn't particularly want, so I > deleted those and found I had to return to the gpart screen and do > it all again because it insisted on mounting those slices. > > I would have been quite happy to leave the boot manager as it was > and add an entry for the new OS, but there was no option to do so > and, even though the Windows installation was recognised and an > entry in the boot manager was created, the FreeBSD one was not. > > The installation was successful, but it seems odd to not have a root > user. To make the changes to grub required a command like: > > 'sudo editor /boot/grub/menu.lst' and then the unprivileged user pw. > > I must admit it looks nice, but the only thing it'll get used for is > creating ext2 file systems on Compact Flash cards destined for my > Psion 5mx. Couldn't find a way to do that from Free. > > -- > Thanks, John. I don't suppose you ever tried sysutils/e2fsprogs? I've been able to create ext2 filesystems with it in the past on FBSD. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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