Re: GRUB

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ive got a fresh installation of DragonFly, and seeing the grub supports
> FFS in stage1, I wanted to install it. Another reason why I installed it
> was because Ive got Windows on another disk and I sometimes need to use
> it. When I try to install grub by running the command grub, and get to the
> grub shell, I do root (hd0,<tab> which should bring up the list of FFS
> partitions on the disk but instead it says "Error 21: Selected disk does
> not exist".
> 
> Does anyone get the same? Im running DragonFly 1.4.4. This works fine in
> FreeBSD.

I see that the pkgsrc grub has not been patched for DragonFly yet,
so if you compiled grub on your DragonFly machine it won't work
properly.

I use grub to boot DF, but I installed grub from FreeBSD or linux.
I usually install grub on a floppy disk and use that to install
grub on the hard disk.