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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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