Re: grub on FreeBSD

2006-05-30 Thread Christian Laursen
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC grub can't see UFS2, only UFS. I belive there is a work around though. google for it GRUB has been able to read UFS2 filesystems for a long time. That doesn't help Ask with his particular problem though. -- Christian Laursen

Re: grub on FreeBSD

2006-05-30 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: Hi, I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems. I installed grub from ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card. Booting on a

grub on FreeBSD

2006-05-29 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi, I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems. I installed grub from ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card. Booting on a Soekris box and running grub, I get this:

Re: grub on FreeBSD

2006-05-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/29/06, Ask Bjørn Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems. I installed grub from ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card. Booting

Install GRUB for FreeBSD

2005-09-18 Thread John Do
Anyone know how to install GRUB for FreeBSD when you can't boot to it? I am totally lost now guys with the booting. FreeBSD bootloader has me so frustrated Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD loader has me lost after weeks :( I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader

Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD

2005-09-18 Thread jonas
hi! On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:08:08 -0400 (EDT) John Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to install GRUB for FreeBSD when you can't boot to it? you need at least one bootable operating system. try a livecd if youre system doesnt boot at all. I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD

Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD

2005-09-18 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
know if Grub can be installed only to the first track, or needs the menu.lst in an FS; it seems like a bad requirement, if so. You might search the Internet for a pre-build Grub floppy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD

2005-09-18 Thread Micah
jonas wrote: AFAIK grub has problems with reading ufs (please correct me if i'm wrong! maybe it's just because my grub version is a bit old ;) ). you can get around this by putting the grub config on a partition grub can read (like ext2fs or fat32) and then just chainload the freebsd loader

Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD

2005-09-18 Thread Micah
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: It starts out on a floppy file system. Then you either just boot off the floppy, or you install it to the hard disk MBR, other first-track sectors, and maybe your OS's root FS. I don't recall if you need a menu.lst or not. That is, I don't know if Grub can be

Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD

2005-09-18 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In order for grub to work as a menu, it requires a stage 2 loader that resides somewhere on your hardrive outside of the MBR. It's my understanding that grub was too big to fit just in the MBR and that necessitated this arrangement. If you don't mind manually

Grub and FreeBSD

2004-11-04 Thread Briggaman, Jason
Hello, I'm trying to get Grub running on 5.3-rc2 but I keep getting Error 29: Disk write error. I'm trying to install it directly to the MBR. I can't use the floppy method because there is one. I can use the FreeBSD loader but I'd like to use grub. This is the only OS on the laptop. If anyone

Re: Grub and FreeBSD

2004-11-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 04), Briggaman, Jason said: I'm trying to get Grub running on 5.3-rc2 but I keep getting Error 29: Disk write error. I'm trying to install it directly to the MBR. I can't use the floppy method because there is one. I can use the FreeBSD loader but I'd like to use grub.

Trouble installing grub on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-15 Thread Stephen Hoover
I'm trying to setup FreeBSD 5.1 on my Dell C640, dual booting with Windows 2000. I cannot get grub to install. When I run grub-install, it churns for a few seconds and comes back with: /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. I have verified all of the files are in /boot/grub and made sure / was

grub and FreeBSD

2003-08-07 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I was trying to do a grub-install /dev/ad0 but only get /dev/ad0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list