Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:05:18 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: greg <gval@mts.net>, "Mark Phillips" <mark@probably.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP Message-ID: <opr2nua4db0cf2rk@dialup-67.74.79.160.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net> In-Reply-To: <1075493388.675.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040130022305.4b1e5e37@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <1075437327.636.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200401301448.20108.mark@probably.co.uk> <1075493388.675.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:09:49 -0600, greg <gval@mts.net> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:48, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> > [... snip ...] >> Hi Greg, >> >> I've just rebooted back into SUSE from FreeBSD. I use Grub to boot them >> both, and Win2k (for how often it gets used, I might as well dump it >> ;-)) >> >> I can safely say even with UFS2 on 5.2, I can boot with > > There is no issue booting kernels on a UFS2 with GRUB. The issue is that > GRUB needs to be installed somewhere. There is more to GRUB than the 512 > bytes on the MBR. It needs to read config files off of a filesystem. > Where are your config files? are they on a UFS2 filesystem? Or are they > on your ext2 file systems? > > If you have have managed to get a GRUB to read it's config files off of > UFS2, let me know, and I will research that area. AFAIK, grub can not > read it's config files off of UFS2 filesystem. BootIt, which I used for a long time, works quite nicely and automagically; so does GAG, and GAG is - not Windows-dependent, for those who care about such things - free as in beer *and* speech, for those who care about such things :) It also works great - I'm running 5 OSs (including -CURRENT on UFS2) on a 3-drive system (2 in RAID-0, one standalone), and GAG has never had the slightest trouble. <URL: http://gag.sourceforge.net/>; Enjoy. Jud
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