Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:22:41 +0100 From: Chris Delnooz <c.delnooz@home.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5 Message-ID: <200302032022.41729.c.delnooz@home.nl> In-Reply-To: <oprjz4aeqr0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> References: <200302012119.02359.c.delnooz@home.nl> <20030202130632.Q31399@aqua.lan.palfreman.com> <oprjz4aeqr0cf2rk@fastmail.fm>
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Rumours go that on Monday 03 February 2003 05:33, Jud spoke the following words: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:02:17 +0000 (GMT), William Palfreman > > <william@palfreman.com> wrote: <snip a lot> > That's what it says at one point in the docs. At another point it explains > that no, the "1" isn't extra, and it uses what Chris has in its example > FreeBSD section for the menu.lst file. (I used a similar config with GRUB, > no problems.) i tried both ways to no avail. The info page actually says the (hd0,a) notation is a short-cut for (hd0,1,a), so they should be equivalent. I found in some mailing list archive some comments about the bios not providing the right hints... tho i think i can rule that out since i've been running grub for about three years on this machine both with FBSD4.5, 4.6 and several linuxes... > > > Also, how new are you to FreeBSD? You sound quite new. not that new :) I came from Mandrake Linux, i've been using FBSD from the release of 4.5 until last september. Then i switched to gentoo linux, and when FBSD5 was released i thought to give it a shot. >>If I were you I > > would use FreeBSD 4.7 instead of 5.0 - I'd only use 5.0 if I were an OS > > developer or there was some feature on 5.0 that I desperately needed - > > like maybe I had a machine with more than 2 CPUs. I personally have no > > intention of going near 5.x until it is the -stable branch *and* > > everyone else has used it long enough to get the problems out. in general, i agree with your statement: if i had a machine depending on stability, i wouldn't switch :) my gateway still safely runs 4.7... but trying new things is kinda exiting, so... :) > > Dang! I missed that. GRUB may not recognize FreeBSD 5.0 disks - does > anyone know for sure one way or the other? It looks like running FBSD5 is the only difference between my machine now and the machine when i ran 4.6 with grub... does someone know if and how i can determine this 100%? In any case, thanks all who have replied. If i find a solution, i'll make sure to post it, in the mean time, i'll be googling until evey piece of info on grub is on my pc :P regards, Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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