Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:51:26 -0300 From: "Bruno Schmitt" <nage.403@gmail.com> To: "Mike Clarke" <jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system Message-ID: <18da510b0808111751n5842bab0wd0d7b132d2fca05d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200808112248.36999.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> References: <35F6662A46BD4D189F961D48D051FDDC@jarasoft.net> <18da510b0808111258p3192a1b6i5720bfa8ad25d9ba@mail.gmail.com> <200808112248.36999.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk>
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Sorry for not making myself clear... When I said "Ubuntu uses GRUB boot manager and as far as I remember it won't recognize FreeBSD partition out of the box" I was referring to the GRUB installed by Ubuntu installation which won't come with FreeBSD partition configured. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk>wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2008, Bruno Schmitt wrote: > > > Ubuntu uses GRUB boot manager and as far as I remember it won't > > recognize FreeBSD partition out of the box, so you will have to add > > some lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst > > > > # For booting FreeBSD > > title FreeBSD 5.2 > > root (hd0,a) > > chainloader +1 > > > > where "(hd0,a)" reflects the position of the FreeBSD primary > > partition. > > Grub does recognise FreeBSD partitions so you can use either the > chainloader command or point grub directly to /boot/loader, though I > can't speak for the Ubuntu version. Here's the menu file for my box > with FreeBSD 6.3, FreeBSD 7.0 and Windoze: > > default 0 > timeout 3 > hiddenmenu > color white/blue yellow/blue > > title FreeBSD 6.3 > root (hd0,0,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > title FreeBSD 7.0 > root (hd0,1,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > title MS Windows > root (hd0,3) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > title Floppy > root (fd0) > chainloader +1 > > > -- > Mike Clarke > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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