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Date:      Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:06:03 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org>
Cc:        Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@cfl.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting 5.0 from GRUB
Message-ID:  <20030307150603.GC57899@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200303071246.41161.ajacoutot@lphp.org>
References:  <1047036606.2205.3.camel@ka0ttic> <200303071246.41161.ajacoutot@lphp.org>

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In the last episode (Mar 07), Antoine Jacoutot said:
> On Friday 07 March 2003 12:30, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > Any idea why /boot/loader wouldnt exist?  This is a fresh install
> > of 5.0.. I haven't even booted it up yet, since I can't get this to
> > work.
> 
> I am having the exact same problem... I think grub does not work well
> under FreeBSD 5.0. I just installed it under 5.0 and it is impossible
> for me to put it on the mbr nor configure it to boot other systems
> which is very blocking. It always tell me that the device does not
> exist.

I don't have any problems booting w98, w2k, and FreeBSD 5.0 with grub
at home.  Go into grub's commandline mode, and use tab-completion to
verify that your path to /boot/loader is correct.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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