From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 22 17:59:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC4B37B419 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:59:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1.despammed.com (24-168-25-8.nyc.rr.com [24.168.25.8]) by nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id fBN20Prx012362 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:00:27 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011222205758.00bca6a8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:59:37 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Scott Subject: Re: GRUB problems (dual-boot FreeBSD + Mandrake) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 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