From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 25 7:21:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uce55.uchaswv.edu (uce55.uchaswv.edu [12.4.161.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E5837B444 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:20:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([172.16.32.103]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA13753; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:24:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200202251524.KAA13753@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nathan Mace To: fred1@inebraska.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GRUB: can't find kernel Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:20:14 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020225055847.A1432@inebraska.com> In-Reply-To: <20020225055847.A1432@inebraska.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Monday 25 February 2002 06:58 am, fred1@inebraska.com wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:17:54PM -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! > > > > i tried all variations i could think of conserning boot. like "boot > > /kernel" for example. when i try that it says that it can't find > > "/kernel". is there some option i have to pass to grub to tell freebsd > > what parition to look at to find the /kernel?? please cc and replies > > directly to me. thanks for all of your help > > Attached is a copy of my GRUB menu.lst, which works fine for all 3. thanks for the help. i found my problem, stupid me. i had "kernel" for both entries instead of having root for the 1st one if that makes sense. anyway now my linux grub boots all 3 OS's. one last question. i have grub installed from the ports tree, but there is no /boot/grub directory. so there is also no menu.lst how do i get the needed files and stuff in there? from what i've read it should be there, but it's not thanks for all the help natan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message