Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:46:40 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: mace_nathan@ucwv.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GRUB: can't find kernel Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0202242043490.26360-100000@corten8> In-Reply-To: <H00009e90089bb73@MHS>
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At Sun, 24 Feb 2002 it looks like mace_nathan@ucwv.edu composed:
> 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
>
> nathan
>
I have a dual boot, 4 primary partitions.
[]---> first primary is Linux /boot
[]---> second primary is Linux swap
[]---> third primay is Linux /
[]---> is FreeBSD-4.2
Here is the FreeBSD part of the stanza.
title FreeBSD-4.2
root (hd0,4,a)
kernel /boot/loader
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