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Date:      Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:59:37 -0500
From:      Scott <scottro@despammed.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GRUB problems (dual-boot FreeBSD + Mandrake)
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011222205758.00bca6a8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>

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On 17:30 2001/12/22 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote

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.


Well, you roused my curiosity, so I installed Grub from the ports 
collection.  The documentation for the FreeBSD port is a bit different from 
what I remember, and did, as you said, mention letters.  They suggest (did 
you mention this?) that one should use
kernel /boot/loader  as the kernel line.
Installed it and it worked perfectly.  My FreeBSD lines are now
title FreeBSD 4.4. Stable
root (hd1, a)
kernel /boot/loader

Thank you.  As I use FreeBSD more, I use Linux less--this is one more thing 
that I can now change over to the FreeBSD version.

The thought also occurs to me--perhaps, especially as Mandrake is one of 
those Linux distros that has many of its own ways of doing things, perhaps 
the Mandrake version of GRUB is having trouble with letters, whereas 
FreeBSD's GRUB doesn't.
Scott Robbins


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