From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 20:33:54 2003 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 A19C637B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 20:33:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (www.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BEF43F85 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 20:33:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687331E8B8; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:33:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 23:33:42 -0500 X-Epoch: 1044246822 X-Sasl-enc: J7dbs8z3lPG1bL7Rsb3fTA Received: from dialup-63.214.210.229.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net (dialup-63.214.210.229.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [63.214.210.229]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD0C18EE6; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:33:38 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Palfreman , Chris Delnooz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5 References: <200302012119.02359.c.delnooz@home.nl> <20030202130632.Q31399@aqua.lan.palfreman.com> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jud Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 23:33:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030202130632.Q31399@aqua.lan.palfreman.com> User-Agent: Opera7.0/Win32 M2 build 2644 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:02:17 +0000 (GMT), William Palfreman wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chris Delnooz wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> i'm experiencing problems with the installation of the GRUB >> bootloader. I have installed the port (grub version 0.92) and created >> the /boot/grub directory with the files from >> /usr/local/share/grub/i381-freebsd. Next I created a menu.lst file in >> /boot/grub and thought to install GRUB in the mbr, so I launch the >> grub shell. My fbsd install is on ad0s2 with / on partition a. If i am >> correct that should be (hd0,1,a) for grub, right? well this is what i >> get: >> >> grub> root (hd0,1,a) >> >> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > > Probably because you've got an extra 1. This is what the grub > info file says: > > -------------- > GRUB can load the kernel directly, either in ELF or a.out format. > But this is not recommended, since FreeBSD's bootstrap interface > sometimes changes heavily, so GRUB can't guarantee to pass kernel > parameters correctly. > Thus, we'd recommend loading the very flexible loader `/boot/loader' > instead. See this example: > grub> root (hd0,a) > grub> kernel /boot/loader > grub> boot > ------------- That's what it says at one point in the docs. At another point it explains that no, the "1" isn't extra, and it uses what Chris has in its example FreeBSD section for the menu.lst file. (I used a similar config with GRUB, no problems.) > Also, how new are you to FreeBSD? You sound quite new. If I were you I > would use FreeBSD 4.7 instead of 5.0 - I'd only use 5.0 if I were an OS > developer or there was some feature on 5.0 that I desperately needed - > like maybe I had a machine with more than 2 CPUs. I personally have no > intention of going near 5.x until it is the -stable branch *and* > everyone else has used it long enough to get the problems out. Dang! I missed that. GRUB may not recognize FreeBSD 5.0 disks - does anyone know for sure one way or the other? Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message