On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:44, you wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:22, dave wrote: > > > Right. You won't be able to boot that system from LILO until you do > > > this. LILO can't boot BSD systems directly (however, GRUB can)--your > > > LILO is currently configured to chain-load the BSD bootloader. > > > > Is it a good thing ??? > > > > > The safest bet is to install the BSD bootloader into the partition on > > > hdc that you installed BSD onto. > > > > did that by installing grub via mandrake control center. > > tried to load BSD but it just sat with the following lines on the screen. > > > > 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 > > where did you get these lines from?
from the menu.lst file in the /boot/grub directory. > > have you looked at any grub documentation? I have looked at all the Howto docs installed in my dist and had a look with google. yesterday and tonite. > what you need is something like this: > > title FreeBSD 4.4 #1 > root (hd2,0,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > the numbering on grub is zero based. the numbering on linux and lilo is > 1 (or a) based. eg > > linux grub description > =================================== > hda (hd0) first hard drive > hda2 (hd0,1) second partition on 1st harddrive > hdc (hd2) third hard drive > hdc1 (hd2,0) 1st partition on 3rd hd > (hd2,0,b) 2nd BSD partition on 1st BSD slice on 3rd hd > > the last one has no equivalent in linux. BSD takes what appears to the > rest of the world to be a partition and calls it a slice. It further > divides the slice up into BSD partitions. > > What the above grub config stanza does is say "go to the first BSD > partition (a) on the 1st BSD slice (other world partition) (0) on the > 3rd harddisk (2) and then run the program called "loader" in the boot > directory. > > this will run the freebsd loader program, which will take over from > there. > > see here for further http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD-2.html didn�t see that one will visit tonite or tomorrow. > > I think I have that right. I reserve the right to change what I said, it > is confusing! > It is isn�t. > > > Read the man pages for boot(8), installboot(8), and biosboot(8) on your > > > BSD system. > > > > can�t as i cannot get to the OS. > > > > any futher ideas ?? -- Dave Lilley
