From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 7 05:00:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F20216A403 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 05:00:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDB743D49 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by pukruppa.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9751VKb093095; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 07:01:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 07:01:31 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" To: Jonathan Horne In-Reply-To: <200610062053.01980.freebsd@dfwlp.com> Message-ID: <20061007064718.D1394@pukruppa.net> References: <200610062053.01980.freebsd@dfwlp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding a linux boot option X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:00:56 -0000 On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Jonathan Horne wrote: > i have a system with 2 disks (ad0 and ad1), with ad1 having a recent suse > linux install, and ad0 is a standard freebsd install. i must have made a > mistake when i installed the suse, as i overwrote my freebsd bootloader and > only had option to boot suse. > > so i then reinstalled freebsd, and i again must have made another mistake, as > the freebsd loader only shows F1 for Freebsd, and nothing else (well, F5 for > drive 1, but that does nothing usable right now). > > is there an easy way i can add an option to boot the OS located at /dev/ad1s2? Depends on what went wrong!?! A very simple solution could be to install a boot manager like GAG (http://gag.sourceforge.net/) At least - since this is a small download and a quick install - I would try it, before I did any further reading of fine manuals :-) Regards, Uli. > > cheers, > jonathan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany