Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:35:15 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is there a boot manager that can handle this? Message-ID: <4C771653.1060004@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <E1OonhN-0005kD-Be@hanssachs.home> References: <4C76FD1B.50804@FreeBSD.org> <E1OomZK-0005fE-BE@hanssachs.home> <4C770CA9.6040408@FreeBSD.org> <E1OonIV-0005ir-Jb@hanssachs.home> <4C770F19.6090500@FreeBSD.org> <E1OonhN-0005kD-Be@hanssachs.home>
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On 8/26/2010 6:25 PM, Alex Goncharov wrote:
> ,--- I/Alex (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:59:59 -0400) ----*
> | Aren't you pointing GRUB to the same location (the third partition on
> | hd0), in both entries?
> ,--- You/Doug (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:04:25 -0700) ----*
> | Ah, right, sorry. The bit I pasted was not the bit I actually used.
>
> :-)
>
> | I had changed the second one to hd0,4 in the running version but I didn't
> | back up that version of the file. I also forgot to mention that I had
> | found the ,a syntax while searching but that didn't help either.
>
> I just (a week ago) set up a dual-bootable laptop for my daughter
> (Debian 5.5 and FreeBSD 8.1), so my experience with GRUB 2 is very
> fresh and very positive. But that laptop is now 1000 miles away from
> me, at the college, and I can't take a look at the grub.cfg entries, so I
> am speaking from memory.
>
> I certainly didn't use the ,a syntax -- just the plain (hd0,3).
>
> I seem to remember though that I did use the "makeactive" in the
> menu entry for FreeBSD, like in my original reply (although that was
> taken from a GRUB 1 menu.lst elsewhere -- it is the "chainloader +1" that
> has been always critical):
Right. With the entries I have I could boot the first FreeBSD partition
no problem, and you're right of course that the chainloader bit is
critical. I'll try the makeactive next.
Thanks again,
Doug
> ,--- I/Alex (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:13:18 -0400) ----*
> |
> | title fbsd-b64 -- chainloader (hd0,2,a)
> | root (hd0,2,a)
> | makeactive
> | chainloader +1
>
> I don't see "makeactive" in yours:
>
> ,--- You/Doug (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:54:01 -0700) ----*
> |
> | menuentry "FreeBSD 9-Current amd64" {
> | set root=(hd0,3)
> | chainloader +1
> | }
> | menuentry "FreeBSD 7-Stable i386" {
> | set root=(hd0,3)
> | chainloader +1
> | }
> |
> `---------------------------------------------------*
>
> And BTW, are you sure that you didn't forget to run update-grub2
> and are looking at /boot/grub/grub.cfg, not at the /etc/grub entries?
>
> -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --
>
>
>
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