Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:58:41 +0300 From: Stanislav Grozev <tacho@orbitel.bg> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grub and FreeBSD 4.9 Message-ID: <20040519115841.GC947@aiel.daemonz.org> In-Reply-To: <00a901c43d97$14642540$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <200405191241.50871.db@traceroute.dk> <008401c43d8e$1da1a640$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <200405191346.45766.db@traceroute.dk> <00a901c43d97$14642540$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:47:34PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Oh quite possibly I have the grub install on a linux partition.
> just creating a small boot partition of a format that grub can load
> should be good enough though. If someone else can find out
> how to get grub to load read an ffs partition I'd be certainly
> interested as well.
mine works fine. i am with 5-current (UFS2, but it works with UFS1 also)
install the grub port
# mkdir /boot/grub
# cp /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd/* /boot/grub
make a /boot/grub/menu.lst:
---begin menu.lst---
default=0
timeout=10
title FreeBSD
root (hd0,1,a)
kernel /boot/loader
---end menu.lst---
(adjust the root directive accordingly - mine is first hard disk,
second slice, partition 'a')
format a msdos diskette
then install grub on it:
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
# mkdir /mnt/grub
# cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/grub/
# umount /mnt
# grub
grub> root (fd0)
grub> setup (fd0)
grub> quit
reboot from the diskette:
grub> root (hd0,1,a) # again, adjust accordingly
grub> setup (hd0) # install in MBR
then reboot and you should be all set
PS. I'm typing this from memory, but this is pretty much how I install it
-tacho
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