From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 19:35:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EACB37B402 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:35:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 51610 invoked by uid 100); 26 Jan 2002 03:35:30 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15442.9218.203200.144669@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:35:30 -0600 To: scott worley Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot loaders? In-Reply-To: <38420453@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\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) 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 worley types: > Just moved my main workstation from linux to FreeBSD 4.5RC2. I was comfortable using GRUB on linux but I haven't found good documention on configuring the FreeBSD boot loaders. Please insert newlines in your outgoing mail; long lines are hard to read for RFC compliant mailers. The info docs that come with grub tell you exactly how to boot FreeBSD from BIOS disk 0. > /dev/da0s1 freebsd 4.5 slice(whole disk) It looks like that's what you've got, unless you've got IDE disks you aren't telling us about. Cut-n-pasted from the docs: grub> root (hd0,a) grub> kernel /boot/loader grub> boot 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