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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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