On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 07:49:22PM +0300, Patrick Okui wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 07:54:35PM +0300, Kabagambe Kenneth wrote: > > > Why don't you setup LILO or GRUB to boot both OS's? Forget about the Windows > > > boot-loader. > > > > > While on this thread, I am having a problem with grub detecting my disk running > > fbsd5 and my 2nd disk running suse8.2. > > it fails to read the partition on the fbsd disk but reads the suse disk fine.if i > > partition one disk and put both SuSE and Fbsd on the same disk, grub sees both > > partitions and I guess the probelem lies on how I am naming the partition on the > > second disk(fbsd).Any clues on he way forward? > > grub has problems with the ufs2 filesystem that > comes with fbsd5*. However, manually editing the > menu.lst in /boot/grub (I think) should work. > > check the entry it makes when you have only one > disk, and then change the hd0,x to hd1,x where > x is the partiion number (grub counts from 0). > > hth > patrick. > > ken > Thanks Patrick,that got it detected. By reading the devicemap the second disk is hd1 and by using unhide (hd1), i was able to get the partitions on the disks.info grub is also very thorough. ken
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