Anyone know how to install GRUB for FreeBSD when you
can't boot to it?
I am totally lost now guys with the booting.
FreeBSD bootloader has me so frustrated
Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD
loader has me lost after weeks :(
I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader
hi!
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:08:08 -0400 (EDT)
John Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know how to install GRUB for FreeBSD when you
can't boot to it?
you need at least one bootable operating system. try a livecd if youre
system doesnt boot at all.
I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD
John Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD
loader has me lost after weeks :(
I know both enough to say that BSD's is way more intuitive
and much simpler to configure and install.
I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader
won't go away! :(
jonas wrote:
AFAIK grub has problems with reading ufs (please correct me if i'm
wrong! maybe it's just because my grub version is a bit old ;) ).
you can get around this by putting the grub config on a partition grub
can read (like ext2fs or fat32) and then just chainload the freebsd
loader
Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
It starts out on a floppy file system. Then you either
just boot off the floppy, or you install it to the hard disk MBR,
other first-track sectors, and maybe your OS's root FS. I don't
recall if you need a menu.lst or not. That is, I don't know if
Grub can be
Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In order for grub to work as a menu, it requires a stage 2 loader
that resides somewhere on your hardrive outside of the MBR. It's my
understanding that grub was too big to fit just in the MBR and that
necessitated this arrangement. If you don't mind manually
