From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 15 18:09:06 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 B568816A46E for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:09:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) Received: from anthesphoria.net (anthesphoria.net [200.46.204.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5D513C4D5 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:09:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.4.1 anthesphoria.net m0FI8wYH091961 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=anthesphoria.net; s=phero; t=1200420544; bh=25hp5O07pfTFMSyzJjXeHiF6KDOt6yQsdVkvDDudp 1g=; l=1476; h=X-Bogosity:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:X-Face:X-Operating-System: Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=rPK+wutNJhc oN+WqUs0WmlIX0tMydg/NQWeKf446+6wHSq/OSUhG1z7zdoohYq+w7qy0t6qdNgHIsc DcTjGqKOO0ypBpOqgqdQTTHwCsCJGB4yHOT3A2qT+7mXcrtSkP/I81fEnkwriy6aHSY EHjF9PJy1fB1ttVJMUYtu8HNkg= Received: from anthesphoria.net (adsl-198-212.eunet.yu [213.198.198.212]) (authenticated bits=0) by anthesphoria.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0FI8wYH091961 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:09:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:08:49 +0100 From: Nikola =?UTF-8?B?TGXEjWnEhw==?= To: "Nerius Landys" Message-ID: <20080115190849.622c2ab9@anthesphoria.net> In-Reply-To: <560f92640801150852s32ee4b24ud6b19ad8b8211f0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <560f92640801142157n7194be23u8c4eac084ed474c9@mail.gmail.com> <20080115144508.204f0c77@anthesphoria.net> <560f92640801150852s32ee4b24ud6b19ad8b8211f0c@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.12.4; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) X-Face: pbl6-.[$G'Fi(Ogs2xlXP-V6{3||$Y[LOYs&~GJoikj'cVjcFC[V7du;;0~6nO= [Vi2?uU1Pq~,=Adj@,T:|"`$AF~il]J.Nz#2pU',Y7.{B;m/?{#sO^Dvo$rnmY6] X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot 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, 15 Jan 2008 18:09:06 -0000 On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:52:26 -0800 "Nerius Landys" wrote: > I have Grub installed at the beginning of /dev/hda1, and Lilo [when I > had it installed before changing it to `boot0'] passed control to > Grub just fine when booting ``Ubuntu''. You can see that the logic > for ``FreeBSD'' is identical except for the slice it uses. When > choosing ``FreeBSD'' from the boot menu, nothing happened. This led > me to conclude that /boot/boot as not installed at the beginning > of /dev/hda2. I'd try adding loader=/boot/chain.b as well, just for the case... > Yes, I figured using `bsdlabel' would install /boot/boot to the > beginning of the slice. However, I cannot [easily] run `bsdlabel' > without being booted into the FreeBSD OS. I can't run the OS > without /boot/boot being installed to the beginning of the FreeBSD > slice. Chicken and egg problem. Actually, I could probably run > `bsdlabel' from the live disc, but a newbie [like myself] would > probably have a hard time figuring this out. Yes, you can run in from live CD... > P.S. I hope I'm doing the quoting thing ``properly'', not > "incorrectly". IMHO there is neither FreeBSD- nor Linux-specific mails, and there shouldn't be such thing. These mails are written in English, so it seems that neither of us is right: quotes should be “like this”, not "like this" or ``like this''. Best regards. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић