From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 22 15:30:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B9AA37B416 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 15:30:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15476 invoked by uid 100); 22 Dec 2001 23:30:33 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15397.6041.539456.694500@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:30:33 -0600 To: Scott Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GRUB problems (dual-boot FreeBSD + Mandrake) In-Reply-To: <68738311@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" 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 Scott types: > At 01:39 2001/12/22 -0500, Jud wrote: > >Interesting. Just installed the grub port tonight, and a slightly > >different config works nicely on my slightly different system. > >title FreeBSD > >root (hd0,1,a) > >kernel /boot/loader > > Now that IS interesting. When I read up on Grub, which would have been 6-8 > months ago, letters weren't listed as a possibility---when I first tried > FreeBSD, did a bit of searching on deja, and saw that people were having > success with the simple chainloader +1, so I tried it and it worked. (As I > said, it also works with Solaris.) The chainloader stuff works on pretty much any OS. But I've been using the partition syntax with Grub for over a year now - since before it grew the ability to set the default boot selection. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message