Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

[Bruno Schmitt]

I recommend installing FreeBSD first, then Windows and then Ubuntu. For
reasons that I don't know, WinXP SP3 will become unable to start if you
installs FreeBSD after it (It will freeze on the welcome screen). - I don't
know if this problem just happened with me or with others people too, but it
happened more than one time.

Ubuntu uses GRUB boot manager and as far as I remember it won't recognize
FreeBSD partition out of the box, so you will have to add some lines to
/boot/grub/menu.lst

# For booting FreeBSD
title  FreeBSD 5.2
root   (hd0,a)
chainloader +1

where (hd0,a) reflects the position of the FreeBSD primary partition.



On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jack Raats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I would like to put FreeBSD, Ubuntu and WInXP on one system using a boot
 manager.

 Which version do I have to put first on the harddisk, which second and
 which last?

 I also want to know which bootmanager to use?


 Thanks for your time

 Greeting
 Jack

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Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

[Bruno Schmitt]

Sorry for not making myself clear... When I said Ubuntu uses GRUB boot
manager and as far as I remember it won't recognize FreeBSD partition out of
the box I was referring to the GRUB installed by Ubuntu installation which
won't come with FreeBSD partition configured.


On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Mike Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 On Monday 11 August 2008, Bruno Schmitt wrote:

  Ubuntu uses GRUB boot manager and as far as I remember it won't
  recognize FreeBSD partition out of the box, so you will have to add
  some lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst
 
  # For booting FreeBSD
  title  FreeBSD 5.2
  root   (hd0,a)
  chainloader +1
 
  where (hd0,a) reflects the position of the FreeBSD primary
  partition.

 Grub does recognise FreeBSD partitions so you can use either the
 chainloader command or point grub directly to /boot/loader, though I
 can't speak for the Ubuntu version. Here's the menu file for my box
 with FreeBSD 6.3, FreeBSD 7.0 and Windoze:

 default 0
 timeout 3
 hiddenmenu
 color white/blue yellow/blue

 title  FreeBSD 6.3
 root   (hd0,0,a)
 kernel /boot/loader

 title  FreeBSD 7.0
 root   (hd0,1,a)
 kernel /boot/loader

 title   MS Windows
 root(hd0,3)
 makeactive
 chainloader +1

 title Floppy
 root (fd0)
 chainloader +1


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