Re: Grub boot-loading HAMMER
rektide wrote: After these install procedures, I tried using grub to load the slice. I tried chainloader'ing it, as well as specifying a kernel /boot/loader. The first gave me an Error 13: invalid or unsupported execution format and the second an Error 17: unable to mount partition error. Does anyone have suggestions for getting Grub to dual-boot a HAMMER DragonflyBSD? If this is hopeless, what can I do to place the absolute minimum amount of code on a bootable non-HAMMER area, and the dominant part of DBSD in Hammer? Hopeless. You'll at least need a /boot UFS partition. Also you'll probably have to modify grub to read DragonFly disklabels (although I have a setup here booting with grub, so I don't know how I managed that :). Oh yes, you'd need a disklabel32, not a disklabel64 to have the slightest chance of making grub work. Or try a /boot in ext2, then also grub should be able to read it :D Alternatively you could try using a chainloader in grub. cheers simon -- 3 the future +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /\ rock the past +++ space for low CHF NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \
Grub boot-loading HAMMER
Hello, I'm trying to use Grub to dual boot into DragonflyBSD running on a HAMMER slice. The install wouldnt let me install boot blocks onto ad0s3 where my HAMMER lives, so I logged in as root from the LiveCD and boot0cfg -B ad0s3'd: I'm not sure if this was necessary or advisable. I'm also not sure if this utility is what the installer would have used to install boot blocks, or whether Dragonfly has a different utility. The installer also didnt change the FS type of the partition: its still listed as FAT16, even though it was formatted over. After these install procedures, I tried using grub to load the slice. I tried chainloader'ing it, as well as specifying a kernel /boot/loader. The first gave me an Error 13: invalid or unsupported execution format and the second an Error 17: unable to mount partition error. Does anyone have suggestions for getting Grub to dual-boot a HAMMER DragonflyBSD? If this is hopeless, what can I do to place the absolute minimum amount of code on a bootable non-HAMMER area, and the dominant part of DBSD in Hammer? I'll be on IRC. Ping rektide. Or respond here. Thank you for your time.
GRUB
Ive got a fresh installation of DragonFly, and seeing the grub supports FFS in stage1, I wanted to install it. Another reason why I installed it was because Ive got Windows on another disk and I sometimes need to use it. When I try to install grub by running the command grub, and get to the grub shell, I do root (hd0,tab which should bring up the list of FFS partitions on the disk but instead it says Error 21: Selected disk does not exist. Does anyone get the same? Im running DragonFly 1.4.4. This works fine in FreeBSD. Any idea people?
Re: GRUB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive got a fresh installation of DragonFly, and seeing the grub supports FFS in stage1, I wanted to install it. Another reason why I installed it was because Ive got Windows on another disk and I sometimes need to use it. When I try to install grub by running the command grub, and get to the grub shell, I do root (hd0,tab which should bring up the list of FFS partitions on the disk but instead it says Error 21: Selected disk does not exist. Does anyone get the same? Im running DragonFly 1.4.4. This works fine in FreeBSD. I see that the pkgsrc grub has not been patched for DragonFly yet, so if you compiled grub on your DragonFly machine it won't work properly. I use grub to boot DF, but I installed grub from FreeBSD or linux. I usually install grub on a floppy disk and use that to install grub on the hard disk.
