Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:55:43 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Nathan Mace <mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootloader question Message-ID: <15319.46959.238450.110060@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <33551592@toto.iv>
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Nathan Mace <mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> types: > are there any tricks to getting grub installed from the ports and > working right? a tutorial someone could point out maybe? i don't much > care for the freebsd bootloader, i currently use lilo that came with > mandrake, but i wanna get away from that. can anyone comment on using > grub to boot a freebsd/win98/misc box? I use it, and it works fine. I have a system that boots FreeBSD -current and -stable, Linux, Solaris, Win98, and have had BeOS on it. Grub can also be told to boot from the floppy or cdrom after starting, which is a nice feature. The one problem is that the ability to run it from the command line in FreeBSD seems broken. I had to build a boot floppy and boot that to get it installed. A potential gotcha is that the first stage boot has a list of block numbers for the second stage boot in it. If you put the second stage boot on a windows partition and then defrag the partition, it fries the boot sequence. So put the second stage boot on a Unix partition. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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