From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 18:02:22 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 D2A5316A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:02:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0879043D1F for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:02:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from normal1.lists@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so311432wri for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:02:20 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=cfIk+8Qi713J3uYI1DOQumFfPZ3IjpIl6LbCgch+hiuz+xjuzbxz59HqAgPGrhOf9g5NRo/Yc7Iz4LeHRDrUyXUtEs7ivyrbJtg3i7oSkZGwRdF/stXjbEl9fZFft2oNVBjY4DCbGJPGClYFtwY68mYB2/tHo4GAh6wBsXl6ccY= Received: by 10.54.56.58 with SMTP id e58mr258488wra; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:02:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.2.67 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:02:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:02:20 -0800 From: gabriel To: Trey Sizemore In-Reply-To: <41F929F0.5020405@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41F929F0.5020405@fastmail.fm> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multibooting with 2 drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:02:23 -0000 I think you're gonna have to do some sort of chain, Have you looked at the freebsd handbook? - I believe this has been discussed before here as well since I had a similar issue. Was trying to dual boot FBSD and windows on two diff disks. Cheers! On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:50:40 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions