Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:59:37 -0500 From: Scott <scottro@despammed.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GRUB problems (dual-boot FreeBSD + Mandrake) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011222205758.00bca6a8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
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On 17:30 2001/12/22 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote 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. Well, you roused my curiosity, so I installed Grub from the ports collection. The documentation for the FreeBSD port is a bit different from what I remember, and did, as you said, mention letters. They suggest (did you mention this?) that one should use kernel /boot/loader as the kernel line. Installed it and it worked perfectly. My FreeBSD lines are now title FreeBSD 4.4. Stable root (hd1, a) kernel /boot/loader Thank you. As I use FreeBSD more, I use Linux less--this is one more thing that I can now change over to the FreeBSD version. The thought also occurs to me--perhaps, especially as Mandrake is one of those Linux distros that has many of its own ways of doing things, perhaps the Mandrake version of GRUB is having trouble with letters, whereas FreeBSD's GRUB doesn't. Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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