From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 24 23:55:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B56237B401 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10450 invoked by uid 100); 25 Oct 2001 06:55:43 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15319.46959.238450.110060@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:55:43 -0500 To: Nathan Mace Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootloader question In-Reply-To: <33551592@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nathan Mace 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. 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