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Cc: Sun Zongjun-E5739C <E5739C@motorola.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Boot FreeBSD from grub
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Joseph Koshy wrote:
> sz> How can add FreeBSD into grub menu? I can see FreeBSD file
> sz> system via fdisk -l comand.
> 
> Something like the following should work in
> "/boot/grub/menu.lst":
> 
>  title FreeBSD
>  root (hd0,a)
>  kernel /boot/loader
> 
> assuming that the 'a' partition is where the kernel resides.
> 
> There might be a catch: I'm not sure if GRUB understands
> UFS2 filesystems, so you might need to ensure that the 'a'
> partition is UFS1.
> 

grub knows UFS2.

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Sem.