From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 3 20:05:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE9016A4CE for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:05:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outmx008.isp.belgacom.be (outmx008.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.3.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5F243D3F for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:05:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geert@lori.mine.nu) Received: from outmx008.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id i63K50PJ005547 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:05:00 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from lori.mine.nu (252-22.244.81.adsl.skynet.be [81.244.22.252]) with ESMTP id i63K4slE005509 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:04:54 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: by lori.mine.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 84B09474; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:04:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:02:56 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx To: Bruce Hunter Message-ID: <20040703200255.GA2095@lori.mine.nu> References: <1088881267.32068.16.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1088881267.32068.16.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-GPG-Key: http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~s005085/gnupgkey.txt X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/766C1E92 X-Accept-Language: nl,en Resent-From: geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be Resent-Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:04:53 +0200 Resent-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Resent-Message-Id: <20040703200453.84B09474@lori.mine.nu> Subject: Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 20:05:05 -0000 On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 03:01:07PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: > Happy 4th! > > okay, now that's out of the way. I am bored with freebsds' boot loader > and want to install Grub from the ports collection. > > My question is: When grub installs, will it find my partitions and set > everything up for me? So, when I reboot grub is working. > > Here is my hard drive setup > ---------------------------- > Partition 0 ) 5g: Windows 2k > Partition 1 ) 35g: Freebsd 5.2.1 > > Thanks guys, > > Bruce No, when you install Grub from ports, it will only install some commandline-tool, nothing will be changed to your configuration. You will need this commandline-tool to install Grub into your MBR. If you want a menu at boot, you will also have to create a textfile describing the various menu-items (different OS'es or just different kernels for example). All this may seem rather complicated, but once you get it, it's pretty easy. It's also very powerful. Just checkout the documentation (it's very well documented). If you have installed Grub from ports, just do "info grub" and you'll get all you need to know, with lots of examples too. (Remember you don't have to be afraid to install Grub from the ports, as it will change nothing to your system automatically.) GH