Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
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 bootloader won't go away! :( make sure you install it to the correct disk! Someone please tell me what the best way to install grub is I guess you need it in the MBR but where will the menu.lst be stored? 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 installed into the freebsd partition. of course this is not the best solution but it works for me :) greets, jonas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
John Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD loader has me lost after weeks :( I know both enough to say that BSD's is way more intuitive and much simpler to configure and install. I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader won't go away! :( I've made mine go away several times. Note that you shouldn't need to get rid of the MBR on the second disk, with Grub on the first. I don't know if Grub can be made to boot the second disk's MBR, or not. Probably. Someone please tell me what the best way to install grub is I guess you need it in the MBR but where will the menu.lst be stored? 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 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://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
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 installed into the freebsd partition. of course this is not the best solution but it works for me :) greets, jonas I use grub installed on a ufs filesystem and it has absolutely no problems reading config files, stages, or splash screens from it. Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
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 installed only to the first track, or needs the menu.lst in an FS; it seems like a bad requirement, if so. 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 typing in commands such as root(hdx,x,x) and kernel /boot/loader then you don't need grub installed anywhere other than the MBR. Though the ufs stage 1.5 might cause problems with freebsd in that regard. I haven't tried grub without /some/ aspect of it installed to a freebsd partition. Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
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 typing in Yeah, but I definitely remember that Grub installs stuff on other sectors of the first track, probably staring with the second sector. So it should be able to store the menu stuff there too, but I don't know if it actual can (I also had it using the menu file in /boot/boot/grub, I think it was for some odd reason). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
