Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 23:25:26 -0500 From: RoadRunner <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: mace_nathan@ucwv.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GRUB: can't find kernel Message-ID: <20020224232526.21039aa4.scottro@nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <H00009e90089bb73@MHS> References: <H00009e90089bb73@MHS>
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:17:54 -0500 mace_nathan@ucwv.edu wrote: > i just istalled grub, and after much hair pulling and yelling it now > boots linux/windows/ and partly boots freebsd. as it stands now, > grub reads the menu.lst file from my linux partition. that said, > when it boots freebsd, loader runs and i get the thing that says > "press enter in 5...4..3..2...1". then after that it dumps me at a > prompt saying that it can't boot kernel or kernel.old! > > It's hard to tell without seeing your menu.lst---I'm assuming Grub > is installed in your linux partion? For what it's worth, here's a > sample Grub file--note that FreeBSD is on the first partition of the > second hard drive. Usually, it can be referenced as (hdx,a) with > kernel /boot/loader. Otherwise, you can reference it as you would a Windows partition--for example, in this case, where it's on the first partition of the second hard drive rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 (Note the spacing there--it's chainloader, space plus sign, no space one) The below is from Grub in a Linux partition, but aside from the splash image (which I wasn't able to get to show in FreeBSD) it's pretty much the same. HTH Scott Robbins default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title RedHat 7.2 Japanese root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 title Windows XP Professional rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title FreeBSD root (hd1,a) kernel /boot/loader title RedHat test root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18n hdd=ide-scsi title Gentoo root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 ro root=/dev/hdb6 title Solaris rootnoverify (hd1,2) chainloader +1 title Linux From Scratch root (hd1,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16 ro root=/dev/hdb6 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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