On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:05:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Without going into too many of the technical details, is it currently possible to >get NetBSD or OpenBSD booted using GRUB? Or do these OS's only work with their own >bootmanagers?
There have been some patches some time ago for FreeBSD (IIRC), but consider that at the moment the *BSD are not _natively_ supported. This means that you can not have GRUB booting _directly_ the kernel. But GRUB can chainload the bootloaders of the *BSD. The distinction here is that, for example, OpenBSD bootloader can not give you a choice to boot something else than its own stuff. You need another bootloader to have the choice --- say GRUB. So when you install a *BSD _don't install the bootloader on the mbr_: the installation will install a sector at the beginning of the 'a' slice of the portion of a disk devoted to *BSD. Once this is done, you can tell GRUB to chainload this sector. If the a slice is on the 4th primary partition of the first disk, the two lines: root (hd0,3,a) chainloader +1 will give control to the BSD bootloader. For general infos, make a search on Google or others for multiboot. I'm sure there are howtos even if I have no URL at hand. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
