Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:08:49 +0100 From: Nikola =?UTF-8?B?TGXEjWnEhw==?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net> To: "Nerius Landys" <nlandys@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot Message-ID: <20080115190849.622c2ab9@anthesphoria.net> In-Reply-To: <560f92640801150852s32ee4b24ud6b19ad8b8211f0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <560f92640801142157n7194be23u8c4eac084ed474c9@mail.gmail.com> <20080115144508.204f0c77@anthesphoria.net> <560f92640801150852s32ee4b24ud6b19ad8b8211f0c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:52:26 -0800 "Nerius Landys" <nlandys@gmail.com> wrote: > I have Grub installed at the beginning of /dev/hda1, and Lilo [when I > had it installed before changing it to `boot0'] passed control to > Grub just fine when booting ``Ubuntu''. You can see that the logic > for ``FreeBSD'' is identical except for the slice it uses. When > choosing ``FreeBSD'' from the boot menu, nothing happened. This led > me to conclude that /boot/boot as not installed at the beginning > of /dev/hda2. I'd try adding loader=/boot/chain.b as well, just for the case... > Yes, I figured using `bsdlabel' would install /boot/boot to the > beginning of the slice. However, I cannot [easily] run `bsdlabel' > without being booted into the FreeBSD OS. I can't run the OS > without /boot/boot being installed to the beginning of the FreeBSD > slice. Chicken and egg problem. Actually, I could probably run > `bsdlabel' from the live disc, but a newbie [like myself] would > probably have a hard time figuring this out. Yes, you can run in from live CD... > P.S. I hope I'm doing the quoting thing ``properly'', not > "incorrectly". IMHO there is neither FreeBSD- nor Linux-specific mails, and there shouldn't be such thing. These mails are written in English, so it seems that neither of us is right: quotes should be “like this”, not "like this" or ``like this''. Best regards. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић
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