Re: New ISO available / ...

[Josh Elsasser <jre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 04:44:29AM -0700, walt wrote:
> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >I never got GRUB to boot FreeBSD
> >either, even though I followed instructions which claimed they would
> >work for FreeBSD...
> 
> GRUB works great for me.  The relevant parts of my grub.conf
> (AKA menu.lst in older versions of grub):
> 
> title DragonflyBSD
> root (hd0,1,a)
> kernel /boot/loader
> 
> title FBSD5
> root (hd0,2,a)
> kernel /boot/loader
> 
> Note that the 'kernel' for both dfbsd and fbsd is actually
> /boot/loader and not the real kernel (as in linux.)  This
> difference is a common source of confusion with GRUB.
> 
> The ideal way to learn GRUB is to install it on a floppy
> disk first and use that to boot with until you are confident
> you have it configured properly, then install it on the
> hard drive.  You can also use the GRUB boot floppy to boot
> almost any machine when you get in trouble, so it's worth
> doing just for that reason alone.
> 
> BTW I've never run into any 'geometry' problems with GRUB
> even though I ignore the whole geometry issue entirely by
> using sector numbers instead of CHS in partition tables
> and disk labels.  Maybe I'm just lucky.

Note that grub doesn't grok UFS2, so you will probably have to
chainload boot2 instead of executing the loader directly.

 -jre