Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 01:30:51 -0500 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: "Paul Sue" <consultant4hire@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GRUB problems (dual-boot FreeBSD + Mandrake) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011221012417.04c66bb0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <F164lDBCMP8h7BLpdfy0000b0c5@hotmail.com>
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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
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