From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 01:35:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28012106567A for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:35:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD93A8FC1A for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19550 invoked by uid 399); 27 Aug 2010 01:35:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.142?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 27 Aug 2010 01:35:15 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C771653.1060004@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:35:15 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Goncharov References: <4C76FD1B.50804@FreeBSD.org> <4C770CA9.6040408@FreeBSD.org> <4C770F19.6090500@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2a1pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is there a boot manager that can handle this? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:35:16 -0000 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 -- > > >