From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 20 22:31: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E5A37B41C for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:30:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1.nyc.rr.com (24-168-25-8.nyc.rr.com [24.168.25.8]) by nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id fBL6Utia024952; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 01:30:55 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011221012417.04c66bb0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 01:30:51 -0500 To: "Paul Sue" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Scott Subject: Re: GRUB problems (dual-boot FreeBSD + Mandrake) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 22:13 2001/12/20 -0800, Paul Sue wrote: >H >(as per www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.90/html_node/grub_19.html) > >When I reboot, I don't see FreeBSD as one of the choices. > >Is there another file I have to edit or ??? The docs often make it harder than it has to be. :) Firstly, however, it should all be numeric, such as (hd1,1) etc. So, assuming you have BSD on the first partition of the second drive Title FreeBSD 4.4. rootnoverify (hd1,1) chainloader +1 This will also work with Solaris, by the way. PS note the spacing in the last line--I once mistyped it and for 10 minutes couldn't figure out why it wouldn't boot--it's chainloader, space plus sign no space,1 HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message