On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 07:03:10PM -0800, R Joseph Wright was heard to say: > Roland McGrath wrote: > > > To start with, Mach should grok the FreeBSD partitioning ok, so that should > > not be an issue however you want to do it. I'm not keeping real close > > track of GRUB, but last I knew it didn't know about the new-fangled freebsd > > boot-loader configuration crapola, so you might want to just chainload the > > freebsd boot loader rather than having GRUB boot your freebsd kernel. > > GRUB boots from a floppy only though, doesn't it? So it seems I > wouldn't have to overwrite Booteasy to install the hurd. If GRUB is > booting the hurd from a floppy as I've read, then I could just boot > without the floppy as I normally do when I want to run FreeBSD, and boot > with the GRUB floppy to get into hurd.
Actually, this isn't true; you can get GRUB to boot from a hard drive (I, for example, have it installed on my MBR) It requires a bit of black magic and the proper incantation using the "install=" command. Even beginning to explain this beast is almost out of the scope of the email; please refer to the Grub documentation :) Basically, though you can install Grub on any block device, in a whole lot of ways (for example, from memory: you can install a minimal amount of stuff on the boot sector and store the rest on the hard drive, or install a subset of the full functionality -- the basic routines plus just one filesystem driver -- on the boot sector) OTOH, booting from a floppy works just fine too. Daniel -- Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what is wrong with it.
