From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 00:51:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13861065678 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:51:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nage.403@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7498FC12 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:51:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nage.403@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so3718248rvf.43 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:51:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=sm+KI6FFW8pC0BxySV+2E5n3ODZos4shGRzoqaUlkEM=; b=t7KW6x4AbbxDyq72fNRSh70tMYX33NAtn8GpXjt+Y70ulTWTojrA/Ki2dXYZr6Jmwn b6+vTWKr7um6o/hmIrM3tT0Qria3MWzamu8lOW83kq5W6Y+wDA3x2YOpihaJlSQM6/fa TB/xE9G/lpiL/TfjTTdJD+UFLtP7JitJdeA2Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=NFj/QHT9ZvS3WgsWaM84rxmxC8ODSXKJShu37lHITJdU2LhNoqiOk5RPvWLfOStrdW arlCTvCpr3Ns/ppLJcyaexj8+CajZo/4UXSTnwS/WkPSerhzsdXxfQQELuKirTOdEMWc ApH9Onvnc1Nec914YXpBMUUfVzS7jF7hUFK8E= Received: by 10.140.136.6 with SMTP id j6mr3939816rvd.231.1218502286102; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.226.15 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <18da510b0808111751n5842bab0wd0d7b132d2fca05d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:51:26 -0300 From: "Bruno Schmitt" To: "Mike Clarke" In-Reply-To: <200808112248.36999.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <35F6662A46BD4D189F961D48D051FDDC@jarasoft.net> <18da510b0808111258p3192a1b6i5720bfa8ad25d9ba@mail.gmail.com> <200808112248.36999.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:51:29 -0000 Sorry for not making myself clear... When I said "Ubuntu uses GRUB boot manager and as far as I remember it won't recognize FreeBSD partition out of the box" I was referring to the GRUB installed by Ubuntu installation which won't come with FreeBSD partition configured. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2008, Bruno Schmitt wrote: > > > Ubuntu uses GRUB boot manager and as far as I remember it won't > > recognize FreeBSD partition out of the box, so you will have to add > > some lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst > > > > # For booting FreeBSD > > title FreeBSD 5.2 > > root (hd0,a) > > chainloader +1 > > > > where "(hd0,a)" reflects the position of the FreeBSD primary > > partition. > > Grub does recognise FreeBSD partitions so you can use either the > chainloader command or point grub directly to /boot/loader, though I > can't speak for the Ubuntu version. Here's the menu file for my box > with FreeBSD 6.3, FreeBSD 7.0 and Windoze: > > default 0 > timeout 3 > hiddenmenu > color white/blue yellow/blue > > title FreeBSD 6.3 > root (hd0,0,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > title FreeBSD 7.0 > root (hd0,1,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > title MS Windows > root (hd0,3) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > title Floppy > root (fd0) > chainloader +1 > > > -- > Mike Clarke > _______________________________________________ > 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" >