Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:05:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? Message-ID: <1319868323.27672.YahooMailNeo@web160113.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20111029045714.B73C7106566C@hub.freebsd.org> References: <1319819884.93776.YahooMailNeo@web160115.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20111029045714.B73C7106566C@hub.freebsd.org>
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----- Original Message ----- > From: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:47 AM > Subject: Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > >> Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > >> I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to > mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file > system > +type. > >> Any help in this regard is very much appreciated. > >> Many thanks in advance. > >> Unga > > Not yet, but I intend to, once I get Linux built and installed, possibly > starting with a cross-compile from FreeBSD 9. > > On my older computer, i386 (32-bit), I dual-boot FreeBSD 8.2 and Linux > (Slackware) using LILO, also FreeDOS on another hard disk, can even boot > grub4dos and Plop (http://www.plop.at/) boot manager from LILO. > > Can you use rootnoverify with grub1 (you must mean grub 0.97)? > Yes, it is 0.97. > You could also try grub2, which is in the ports under sysutils. > > Is your hard disk partitioned MBR or GPT? > Its MBR. > My hard disk is partitioned GPT, I still can't boot the hard disk directly, > but using the System Rescue CD (http://sysresccd.org/), I go to the Super Grub > Disk in the floppy images, hit c to get to command prompt, and > > set root=(hd0,3) > kfreebsd /boot/loader > boot > > You would use the actual FreeBSD partition which will probably be different from > (hd0,3). > > Tom > Tom, thanks for the reply. I managed to get both OpenSUSE 11.4 and FreeBSD 9 dual-boot on i386 desktop computer. Ungahelp
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