At 2004-06-10T192232+1200, dave wrote:
> did that by installing grub via mandrake control center.
> tried to load BSD but it just sat with the following lines on the screen.
Why install GRUB now? You've just switched bootloaders in the middle of
troubleshooting. LILO would have worked fine. GRUB will also work,
and, in fact, it may be easier--GRUB (sometimes, depending on the
version you have) supports booting BSD systems directly.
What version of FreeBSD did you install? Did you use UFS2 or UFS as the
filesystem? The version of GRUB you have almost definitely won't
support directly booting FreeBSD from a UFS2 filesystem.
> title FreeBSD
> root (hd1,0) <-- presume is equal to hdc and the 0 equal to boot partition.
> map (0x81) (0x80)
> map (0x80) (0x81)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
You need to RTFM. This GRUB configuration will attempt to chainload the
FreeBSD bootloader, which you have already said you didn't install.
> can�t as i cannot get to the OS.
Use a bootable rescue image to boot the system, e.g. the FreeBSD install
CD.
Cheers,
-mjg
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