Re: Stand-alone GRUB HELP
On Sep 12, 2005, at 2:17 PM, John Do wrote: Hi Glen, Thanks for the reply I tried the following and there was no change to the boot menu: boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0 boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 All I can say is, have you read the handbook yet, and please bottom post from now on in emails. Thanks :). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stand-alone GRUB HELP
At 10:17 PM 9/11/2005, John Do wrote: Hi Glen, Thanks for the reply I tried the following and there was no change to the boot menu: boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0 boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 What does boot0cfg -v show for the two disks you have? Output from fdisk and bsdlabel for both would be helpful too. -Glenn --- Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:18 PM 9/11/2005, John Do wrote: Hi guys I have been reading documentation and I'm still confused. I have Windows on ad0 and FreeBSD on ad2 I installed the BSD bootloader but it is only booting Windows. There is some limitation or problem and no matter what I try in the emergency shell I cannot configure boot0cfg to work properly. So I need two solutions to try: How do I configure the BSD boot loader to work to boot both Windows and FreeBSD? I have tried commands like boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 and it doesn't seem to help or boot I think what you want is: test54# boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0 test54# boot0cfg -B -s 1 ad2 If you reboot, you should end up booting from the first slice on ad2. This is what everything looks like on one of my test boxes: test54# boot0cfg -v ad4 # flag start chs type end chs offset size 1 0x00 0: 1: 1 0x07 1023:254:63 63 20964762 2 0x80 1023:255:63 0xa5 1023:254:63 20964825 20964825 3 0x00 1023:255:63 0x07 1023:254:63 41929650 61432560 4 0x00 1023:255:63 0xa5 1023: 80:63 103362210287359758 version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182 options=packet,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F5 (Drive 1) test54# boot0cfg -v ad6 # flag start chs type end chs offset size 1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 1023:254:63 63156296322 version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182 options=packet,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) Not exactly the same as your setup, but close. On ad4, 1 is windows, 2 is FreeBSD, 3 and 4 are non-bootable. On ad6, 1 is FreeBSD. -Glenn Second solution: Stand-alone GRUB install How can I install GRUB stand-alone? How do I install it into /boot? I guess /boot = some mounted partition of a unix OS? Would it be best to make /boot under the existing FreeBSD partition? The more exact details the better. I've been scratching my head over this for days thx! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca --- was it the same cat? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stand-alone GRUB HELP
Hi guys I have been reading documentation and I'm still confused. I have Windows on ad0 and FreeBSD on ad2 I installed the BSD bootloader but it is only booting Windows. There is some limitation or problem and no matter what I try in the emergency shell I cannot configure boot0cfg to work properly. So I need two solutions to try: How do I configure the BSD boot loader to work to boot both Windows and FreeBSD? I have tried commands like boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 and it doesn't seem to help or boot Second solution: Stand-alone GRUB install How can I install GRUB stand-alone? How do I install it into /boot? I guess /boot = some mounted partition of a unix OS? Would it be best to make /boot under the existing FreeBSD partition? The more exact details the better. I've been scratching my head over this for days thx! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stand-alone GRUB HELP
At 09:18 PM 9/11/2005, John Do wrote: Hi guys I have been reading documentation and I'm still confused. I have Windows on ad0 and FreeBSD on ad2 I installed the BSD bootloader but it is only booting Windows. There is some limitation or problem and no matter what I try in the emergency shell I cannot configure boot0cfg to work properly. So I need two solutions to try: How do I configure the BSD boot loader to work to boot both Windows and FreeBSD? I have tried commands like boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 and it doesn't seem to help or boot I think what you want is: test54# boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0 test54# boot0cfg -B -s 1 ad2 If you reboot, you should end up booting from the first slice on ad2. This is what everything looks like on one of my test boxes: test54# boot0cfg -v ad4 # flag start chs type end chs offset size 1 0x00 0: 1: 1 0x07 1023:254:63 63 20964762 2 0x80 1023:255:63 0xa5 1023:254:63 20964825 20964825 3 0x00 1023:255:63 0x07 1023:254:63 41929650 61432560 4 0x00 1023:255:63 0xa5 1023: 80:63103362210287359758 version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182 options=packet,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F5 (Drive 1) test54# boot0cfg -v ad6 # flag start chs type end chs offset size 1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 1023:254:63 63156296322 version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182 options=packet,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) Not exactly the same as your setup, but close. On ad4, 1 is windows, 2 is FreeBSD, 3 and 4 are non-bootable. On ad6, 1 is FreeBSD. -Glenn Second solution: Stand-alone GRUB install How can I install GRUB stand-alone? How do I install it into /boot? I guess /boot = some mounted partition of a unix OS? Would it be best to make /boot under the existing FreeBSD partition? The more exact details the better. I've been scratching my head over this for days thx! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stand-alone GRUB HELP
Hi Glen, Thanks for the reply I tried the following and there was no change to the boot menu: boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0 boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 --- Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:18 PM 9/11/2005, John Do wrote: Hi guys I have been reading documentation and I'm still confused. I have Windows on ad0 and FreeBSD on ad2 I installed the BSD bootloader but it is only booting Windows. There is some limitation or problem and no matter what I try in the emergency shell I cannot configure boot0cfg to work properly. So I need two solutions to try: How do I configure the BSD boot loader to work to boot both Windows and FreeBSD? I have tried commands like boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 and it doesn't seem to help or boot I think what you want is: test54# boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0 test54# boot0cfg -B -s 1 ad2 If you reboot, you should end up booting from the first slice on ad2. This is what everything looks like on one of my test boxes: test54# boot0cfg -v ad4 # flag start chs type end chs offset size 1 0x00 0: 1: 1 0x07 1023:254:63 63 20964762 2 0x80 1023:255:63 0xa5 1023:254:63 20964825 20964825 3 0x00 1023:255:63 0x07 1023:254:63 41929650 61432560 4 0x00 1023:255:63 0xa5 1023: 80:63 103362210287359758 version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182 options=packet,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F5 (Drive 1) test54# boot0cfg -v ad6 # flag start chs type end chs offset size 1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 1023:254:63 63156296322 version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182 options=packet,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) Not exactly the same as your setup, but close. On ad4, 1 is windows, 2 is FreeBSD, 3 and 4 are non-bootable. On ad6, 1 is FreeBSD. -Glenn Second solution: Stand-alone GRUB install How can I install GRUB stand-alone? How do I install it into /boot? I guess /boot = some mounted partition of a unix OS? Would it be best to make /boot under the existing FreeBSD partition? The more exact details the better. I've been scratching my head over this for days thx! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
