Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:11:21 -0500 From: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> To: db@traceroute.dk Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re:Grub and FreeBSD 4.9 Message-ID: <20040519151121.GA4157@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net>
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I think you are making things too difficult for yourself.
I've been using grub since it first appeared in the ports tree and
the procedure is relatively simple compared to what you've been
trying to do. The latest version also supports ufs2 quite nicely.
Here is what my menu.lst looks like:
timeout 5
default 4
password --md5 **************************************************
title Windows ME
lock
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title S2D resume
lock
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title FreeBSD 5.2-Current
root (hd0,2,a)
kernel /boot/loader
title FreeBSD 4.9-Release
root (hd0,3,a)
kernel /boot/loader
title FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release (default)
root (hd0,3,d)
kernel /boot/loader
(I have obviously replaced the password listing for security.)
The trick is that after you install grub via the port you must copy
the correct supporting pieces to /boot/grub from
/usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd/ directory. Namely:
ffs_stage1_5
stage1
stage2
You also need a device.map file (because grub expects linux
terminology). Mine contains the following:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/ad0
Once you have also placed your menu.lst file there you can follow the
directions found in `info grub` to get it installed to the disk. To
give a short tutorial, here is what a session looks like for me:
NitroPhys# grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
GNU GRUB version 0.94 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,3,a)
(hd0,3,d)
grub> root (hd0,3,d)
Filesystem type is ffs, partition type 0xa5
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,3,d)/boot/grub/stage 2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.
grub> quit
NitroPhys#
That should get you going without any fooling around with floppies
and such.
Let me know if you still can't get it working properly.
Sean
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