,--- I/Alex (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:59:59 -0400) ----* | Aren't you pointing GRUB to the same location (the third partition on | hd0), in both entries? ,--- You/Doug (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:04:25 -0700) ----* | Ah, right, sorry. The bit I pasted was not the bit I actually used.
:-) | I had changed the second one to hd0,4 in the running version but I didn't | back up that version of the file. I also forgot to mention that I had | found the ,a syntax while searching but that didn't help either. I just (a week ago) set up a dual-bootable laptop for my daughter (Debian 5.5 and FreeBSD 8.1), so my experience with GRUB 2 is very fresh and very positive. But that laptop is now 1000 miles away from me, at the college, and I can't take a look at the grub.cfg entries, so I am speaking from memory. I certainly didn't use the ,a syntax -- just the plain (hd0,3). I seem to remember though that I did use the "makeactive" in the menu entry for FreeBSD, like in my original reply (although that was taken from a GRUB 1 menu.lst elsewhere -- it is the "chainloader +1" that has been always critical): ,--- I/Alex (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:13:18 -0400) ----* | | title fbsd-b64 -- chainloader (hd0,2,a) | root (hd0,2,a) | makeactive | chainloader +1 I don't see "makeactive" in yours: ,--- You/Doug (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:54:01 -0700) ----* | | menuentry "FreeBSD 9-Current amd64" { | set root=(hd0,3) | chainloader +1 | } | menuentry "FreeBSD 7-Stable i386" { | set root=(hd0,3) | chainloader +1 | } | `---------------------------------------------------* And BTW, are you sure that you didn't forget to run update-grub2 and are looking at /boot/grub/grub.cfg, not at the /etc/grub entries? -- Alex -- alex-goncha...@comcast.net -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"