Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:53:09 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: John Do <pcbsdguy@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD Message-ID: <2qbr2q9jyi.r2q@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050918160808.4049.qmail@web35805.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (John Do's message of "Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:08:08 -0400 (EDT)") References: <20050918160808.4049.qmail@web35805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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John Do <pcbsdguy@yahoo.ca> writes: > Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD > loader has me lost after weeks :( I know both enough to say that BSD's is way more intuitive and much simpler to configure and install. > I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader > won't go away! :( I've made mine go away several times. Note that you shouldn't need to get rid of the MBR on the second disk, with Grub on the first. I don't know if Grub can be made to boot the second disk's MBR, or not. Probably. > Someone please tell me what the best way to install > grub is > > I guess you need it in the MBR but where will the > menu.lst be stored? It starts out on a floppy file system. Then you either just boot off the floppy, or you install it to the hard disk MBR, other first-track sectors, and maybe your OS's root FS. I don't recall if you need a menu.lst or not. That is, I don't know if Grub can be installed only to the first track, or needs the menu.lst in an FS; it seems like a bad requirement, if so. You might search the Internet for a pre-build Grub floppy.
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