Date: 24 Aug 2000 02:54:44 -0300 From: Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@cse.iitd.ernet.in> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi OS installation Message-ID: <86d7izw6e3.fsf@mpcnet.com.br> In-Reply-To: Rakhesh Sasidharan's message of "Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:12:42 %2B0530 (IST)" References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008241107190.28074-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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:: On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:12:42 +0530 (IST), Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@cse.iitd.ernet.in> said: > Is GRUB available only for Linux, or are there versions for > (Free|Net|Open)BSD also ? I haven't checked the homepage - just asking. Their page doesn't say it, but they say it requires GCC and GNU binutils 2.9.1.0.23 or later... I don't see any reason why it wouldn't compile and run on *BSD. Just don't know if it's available via ports... (It could be!) Anyway... You don't have to run grub from the OS, usually. it's not like LILO, that has to check kernel images and write to the MBR everytime you change things. You may get it for Linux, install it, and not use the grub binary again. You just edit a file, and it'll find your kernels... Also... Even without that, the grub understands filesystems, so you can search your kernel at boot time, if you kame a mistake when writing the config file. (It has a bash-like shell, with tab-completion!) > Rakhesh J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:jeronimo@ic.unicamp.br mailto:pellegrini@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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