From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 17:50:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422FA16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:50:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ispmxmta06-srv.alltel.net (ispmxmta06-srv.alltel.net [166.102.165.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902AB43D2F for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:50:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trey@fastmail.fm) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (really [69.40.75.206]) by ispmxmta06-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP <20050127175050.LTGC12977.ispmxmta06-srv.alltel.net@[192.168.0.6]> for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:50:50 -0600 Message-ID: <41F929F0.5020405@fastmail.fm> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:50:40 -0500 From: Trey Sizemore User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Multibooting with 2 drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:50:55 -0000 I have 2 IDE drives laid out as follows: 1 (master) - 80GB with FreeBSD occupying entire drive 2 (slave) - 80GB with 4 linux distros hdb1- Fedora Core 3 / hdb2 - Fedora Core 3 /home hdb3 - swap hdb4 - ***EXTENDED PARTITION*** hdb5 - SUSE 9.2 / hdb6 - SUSE 9.2 /home hdb7 - Mandrake 10.2 / hdb8 - Mandrake 10.2 /home hdb9 - Arch 0.7 / hdb10 - Arch 0.7 /home When I installed the Linux distros I chose not to install a boot loader for any of them (thinking that a bootmanager like GAG would handle this). In retrospect, this may have been a conceptual error as GAG would error with "Boot sector not found or corrupt" for these partitions. On the advice of someone on the Fedora User's list, I booted the Fedora CD in rescue mode and: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # /sbin/grub-install /dev/hdb1 When I rebooted with GAG and set it to boot Fedora using hdb1, it now gives me a 'grub>' prompt. How can I recover this and get Fedora to boot beyond this? I'm hoping luck with this will enable me to do the same for the other Linux distros. If there are any other suggestions on this, I'm certainly open to them as well. Thanks.