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From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
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Subject: Re: GRUB: can't find kernel
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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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