Grub and FreeBSD 4.9

[Steven Hartland]

chainloader is your friend here I found as u correctly state it doesn't
seem to support ffs drives even though the devs seem to say it does.

    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "db" <db at traceroute.dk>
To: <hackers at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: Grub and FreeBSD 4.9


> Hi all
> 
> I'm trying to get grub working on my FreeBSD 4.9 test-box. So far I've done:
> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/grub
> make install clean
> mkdir /boot/grub
> cp /usr/local/share/grub-0.94/i386-freebsd/* /boot/grub/
> In /boot/grub I created a fil called menu.lst and wrote this in it:
> default 0  # By default, boot the first entry.
> timeout 5 # Boot automatically after 30 secs.
> 
> title FreeBSD
> root   (hd0,0)
>   kernel /boot/loader
> 
> My box is just a test box with one harddisk, so I've made one huge / and then
> given about 256 mb to swap.
> 
> I've read that the safest way to install grub is by making a bootdisk, boot
> and run setup, so I made the disk:
>      # cd /boot/grub
>      # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/afd0 bs=512 count=1
>      1+0 records in
>      1+0 records out
>      # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/afd0 bs=512 seek=1
>      153+1 records in
>      153+1 records out
> And I booted on it just fine, but I can't install grub because it by default
> dones't support ffs drives. I know there is a ffs_stage1_5 in /boot/grub, but
> how do I use it?
> 
> Anyway I rebooted in FreeBSD and ran "grub" and made the install
>  successfully, but then booting the system again I get an "error 18". So how
>  do I fix it?
> 
> I've also tried getting network support built into grub, but I can't figure
> out which driver to use (FreeBSD use de0), any ideas?
> 
> Best regards
> db
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