From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 7: 6:11 2003 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 CBE3B37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032BB43FAF for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:06:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) id h27F638H032996; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:06:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:06:03 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Antoine Jacoutot Cc: Aaron Walker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting 5.0 from GRUB Message-ID: <20030307150603.GC57899@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1047036606.2205.3.camel@ka0ttic> <200303071246.41161.ajacoutot@lphp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303071246.41161.ajacoutot@lphp.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 In the last episode (Mar 07), Antoine Jacoutot said: > On Friday 07 March 2003 12:30, Aaron Walker wrote: > > Any idea why /boot/loader wouldnt exist? This is a fresh install > > of 5.0.. I haven't even booted it up yet, since I can't get this to > > work. > > I am having the exact same problem... I think grub does not work well > under FreeBSD 5.0. I just installed it under 5.0 and it is impossible > for me to put it on the mbr nor configure it to boot other systems > which is very blocking. It always tell me that the device does not > exist. I don't have any problems booting w98, w2k, and FreeBSD 5.0 with grub at home. Go into grub's commandline mode, and use tab-completion to verify that your path to /boot/loader is correct. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message