Jason W Morgan wrote: > Also, be sure to keep a backup of your modified GRUB config---it seems > that each time Ubuntu decides it needs to perform a significant update, > it replaces the GRUB config with the default, making FreeBSD once again > inaccessible. There is probably a way to prevent this, but I never got > around to investigating it.
Yes, in general, in Debian or Ubuntu config files there are markers which delimitate what the system is allowed to mess with and the rest. For example, for grub, i have (but the same idea appears in xorg config file, etc. - in general it is a very good idea, which could be profitably used by FreeBSD): # Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST title Ubuntu root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=3eda2f02-17f1-4993-b52e- dfe21bb480d5 ro locale=fr_FR vga=791 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic savedefault boot title FreeBSD root (hd0,3) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 title Windows XP Media Center Edition root (hd0,1) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items above from the # Debian # ones. ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs Here things will be upgraded automatically ..... title Ubuntu, memtest86+ root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin quiet ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST Here things are safe. Note that, as remarked by several people, contrary to the grub version in ports, the grub version coming with Ubuntu doesn't read the UFS2 filesystem, so one needs to load FreeBSD by chain booting instead of directly loading /boot/loader. -- Michel TALON _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"