Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 17:28:49 +0530 From: <sundeep.puliccott@wipro.com> To: <lorenl@alzatex.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Dual-boot does not work with GRUB Message-ID: <7F396B9772328640B7593FA817EEEDADA95089@blr-m3-msg.wipro.com>
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Hi,
I to have a multi boot system with linux and freebsd and windows.
GRUB is my boot loader.
I did not chain load FreeBSD.
This is my menu file for GRUB
default=3D1
timeout=3D10
splashimage=3D(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux 9 (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=3DLABEL=3D/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title FreeBSD 4.8
root (hd0,3,a)
kernel /boot/loader
And my fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 892 7164958+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 893 956 514080 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda3 957 2522 12578895 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 * 2523 4865 18820147+ a5 FreeBSD
/dev/hda5 957 969 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 970 2457 11952328+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2458 2522 522081 82 Linux swap
This works fine for me.=0D
I to am a beginner and still gathering info
Hope it helps
-sundeep
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From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Loren M. Lang
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 7:26 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Dual-boot does not work with GRUB
I've been trying to setup a dual boot Linux/FreeBSD system so I can
tryout freebsd and compare it to linux, my current main os. I had the
freebsd easyboot bootloader installed, but I couldn't get it to boot
linux so I reinstalled GRUB as lilo doesn't even load properly on my
system. I can now boot into linux and use the freebsd install disk to
boot into freebsd.
I've tried to get grub to boot freebsd directly, but it's not working.
I've had it chainloader the first sector of the slice with freebsd on it
and chainload /boot/boot1 directly, both just print a - in the upper
left corner and stop, like it loaded boot1 successfully but boot1
couldn't find boot2. Chainloading /boot/boot0 does a similar result,
with that boot loader. Using grub to try and load /boot/loader and
/kernel with the kernel command doesn't do much either.
Any suggestions.
Also, in my short experience with freebsd, it seems relatively fast, but
when there is massive i/o in the background, like untarring a massive
tarball, the system becomes rather unresponsive with certain things, is
something misconfigured on my system? Harddrive dma is turned on
according to sysctl. On linux there is also an option to unmask irqs
while handling a disk interrupt, is there a similar option in freebsd
and will it help?
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