Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:10:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting with Grub Message-ID: <20040701090748.N52759@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> In-Reply-To: <200407011532.03043.andrew@walrond.org> References: <200407011532.03043.andrew@walrond.org>
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At Thu, 1 Jul 2004 it looks like Andrew Walrond composed:
> I have installed 5.2.1 into a partition and I want to use my existing
> bootloader, grub.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the required grub configuartion line would look like,
> or point me to an FAQ?
>
> Andrew Walrond
> _______________________________________________
Here is one that worked for me with FreeBSD on the 4th primary partition.
It was a while ago when I had RedHat-7.2 as the controller of GRUB.
################################
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
# file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img
title FreeBSD-4.2
root (hd0,4,a)
kernel /boot/loader
###################################
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