Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:32:24 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grub doesn't know ufs filesystem Message-ID: <200512171732.25898.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <43A091C4.5010304@ywave.com> References: <43A031B1.2030105@supsi.ch> <200512141829.36933.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <43A091C4.5010304@ywave.com>
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On Wednesday 14 December 2005 21:42, Micah wrote: > I used chainloading for a while until I wanted multiple installs of > FreeBSD on the same drive. Using chainloading from grub always booted > the first FreeBSD regardless of which slice was specified in menu.lst. > Changing it to use /boot/loader allowed me to actually have more than > one FreeBSD on the same drive. I pretty sure you did something wrong, I've chainloaded multiple FreeBSD slices on the same drive using Lilo and other bootloaders. > Also, grub places some files on a host filesystem. It may be more > convenient to have those files stored on UFS rather than FAT or EXT. > ... > In that case, if you use grub (rather than FreeBSD's manager), you'd > have to make a partition solely for grub. But is it a good idea for a bootloader to require external files at boot-time? I assume there are cases were grub does things that other loaders can't, but it seems to me that for most people booting FreeBSD it's an overcomplicated and awkward solution.home | help
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