On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:52, you wrote: > 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. Using 5.2 RELEASE and using UFS2 latest filesystem, UFS isn�t used as a default FS in 5.x (i think from memory of the install).
> > > 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. few things.... Did look at the man pages (confused to hell) and the howtos cleared the mist a bit. Tried using grub-install plus a few other commands was not willing to trash my Lilo boot setup without knowing exactly what i was doing and how to recover without trashing my whole setup. check my message, I said i installed grub via MDK CONTROL CENTER. the bit about the chainloader is what grub did not me (i just cut and pasted it to my email) and it is what was dsiplayed when i first attempted to run BSD. > > > can�t as i cannot get to the OS. > > Use a bootable rescue image to boot the system, e.g. the FreeBSD install > CD. Have a flaky floppy drive conection on the motherboard very unstable link. floppy disk is okay. So now then as i am back with lilo i _have_ to go to grub again because of the UFS2 filesystem. And with the BSD bootloader installed on the hard drive it (grub) should load/chainload BSD when selected ? ps nick gave me a url that i�ll checkout tonite / tomorrow. > Cheers, > -mjg -- Dave Lilley
