Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:30:33 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1009495833.ca0aa2@mired.org> To: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GRUB problems (dual-boot FreeBSD + Mandrake) Message-ID: <15397.6041.539456.694500@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <68738311@toto.iv>
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Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> types: > At 01:39 2001/12/22 -0500, Jud wrote: > >Interesting. Just installed the grub port tonight, and a slightly > >different config works nicely on my slightly different system. > >title FreeBSD > >root (hd0,1,a) > >kernel /boot/loader > > Now that IS interesting. When I read up on Grub, which would have been 6-8 > months ago, letters weren't listed as a possibility---when I first tried > FreeBSD, did a bit of searching on deja, and saw that people were having > success with the simple chainloader +1, so I tried it and it worked. (As I > said, it also works with Solaris.) The chainloader stuff works on pretty much any OS. But I've been using the partition syntax with Grub for over a year now - since before it grew the ability to set the default boot selection. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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