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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:14:31 -0500
From:      Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and GRUB?
Message-ID:  <200307020914.31722.lists@rhavenn.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3he65xqhw.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk>
References:  <200307020336.11184.lists@rhavenn.net> <m3he65xqhw.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk>

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On Wednesday 02 July 2003 03:49, Christian Laursen wrote:
> Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> writes:
> > I installed Grub from ports (cvsup'ed from tonight) and can't quite get
> > her working.
> >
> > I am running 4.8rel.
> >
> > I copied in the various *stage file into /boot/grub . I created a
> > grub.conf and sym-linked menu.lst to it and made everything 444.
>
> Try having the real file be /boot/grub/menu.lst and make /etc/grub.conf a
> symlink to that.
>
> Personally I don't have any grub.conf and it works fine without it.
>
> Grub has very little chance to follow a symlink to another partition in the
> boot environment.

Yup. That worked. On my Gentoo box it has the symlink, so didn't think that 
would hurt here :) Thanks.

-- 
Henrik Hudson
listsNO@SPAMrhavenn.net

"`If there's anything more important than my ego
around, I want it caught and shot now.'" 
	--Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy



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