Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:20:14 -0500 From: Nathan Mace <mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> To: fred1@inebraska.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GRUB: can't find kernel Message-ID: <200202251524.KAA13753@uce55.uchaswv.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020225055847.A1432@inebraska.com> References: <20020225055847.A1432@inebraska.com>
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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
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