Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:02:20 -0800 From: gabriel <normal1.lists@gmail.com> To: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multibooting with 2 drives Message-ID: <efb858205012710021ac6a301@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41F929F0.5020405@fastmail.fm> References: <41F929F0.5020405@fastmail.fm>
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I think you're gonna have to do some sort of chain, Have you looked at the freebsd handbook? - I believe this has been discussed before here as well since I had a similar issue. Was trying to dual boot FBSD and windows on two diff disks. Cheers! On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:50:40 -0500, Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> wrote: > I have 2 IDE drives laid out as follows: > > 1 (master) - 80GB with FreeBSD occupying entire drive > 2 (slave) - 80GB with 4 linux distros > hdb1- Fedora Core 3 / > hdb2 - Fedora Core 3 /home > hdb3 - swap > hdb4 - ***EXTENDED PARTITION*** > hdb5 - SUSE 9.2 / > hdb6 - SUSE 9.2 /home > hdb7 - Mandrake 10.2 / > hdb8 - Mandrake 10.2 /home > hdb9 - Arch 0.7 / > hdb10 - Arch 0.7 /home > > When I installed the Linux distros I chose not to install a boot loader > for any of them (thinking that a bootmanager like GAG would handle > this). In retrospect, this may have been a conceptual error as GAG > would error with "Boot sector not found or corrupt" for these > partitions. On the advice of someone on the Fedora User's list, I > booted the Fedora CD in rescue mode and: > # chroot /mnt/sysimage > # /sbin/grub-install /dev/hdb1 > > When I rebooted with GAG and set it to boot Fedora using hdb1, it now > gives me a 'grub>' prompt. > > How can I recover this and get Fedora to boot beyond this? I'm hoping > luck with this will enable me to do the same for the other Linux > distros. If there are any other suggestions on this, I'm certainly open > to them as well. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions
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