Is there a boot manager that can handle this?

[Doug Barton]

On 8/26/2010 6:25 PM, Alex Goncharov wrote:
> ,--- I/Alex (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:59:59 -0400) ----*
> | Aren't you pointing GRUB to the same location (the third partition on
> | hd0), in both entries?
> ,--- You/Doug (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:04:25 -0700) ----*
> | Ah, right, sorry. The bit I pasted was not the bit I actually used.
>
> :-)
>
> | I had changed the second one to hd0,4 in the running version but I didn't
> | back up that version of the file. I also forgot to mention that I had
> | found the ,a syntax while searching but that didn't help either.
>
> I just (a week ago) set up a dual-bootable laptop for my daughter
> (Debian 5.5 and FreeBSD 8.1), so my experience with GRUB 2 is very
> fresh and very positive.  But that laptop is now 1000 miles away from
> me, at the college, and I can't take a look at the grub.cfg entries, so I
> am speaking from memory.
>
> I certainly didn't use the ,a syntax -- just the plain (hd0,3).
>
> I seem to remember though that I did use the "makeactive" in the
> menu entry for FreeBSD, like in my original reply (although that was
> taken from a GRUB 1 menu.lst elsewhere -- it is the "chainloader +1" that
> has been always critical):

Right. With the entries I have I could boot the first FreeBSD partition 
no problem, and you're right of course that the chainloader bit is 
critical. I'll try the makeactive next.


Thanks again,

Doug


> ,--- I/Alex (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:13:18 -0400) ----*
> |
> | title fbsd-b64 -- chainloader (hd0,2,a)
> |   root (hd0,2,a)
> |   makeactive
> |   chainloader +1
>
> I don't see "makeactive" in yours:
>
> ,--- You/Doug (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:54:01 -0700) ----*
> |
> | menuentry "FreeBSD 9-Current amd64" {
> | set root=(hd0,3)
> | chainloader +1
> | }
> | menuentry "FreeBSD 7-Stable i386" {
> | set root=(hd0,3)
> | chainloader +1
> | }
> |
> `---------------------------------------------------*
>
> And BTW, are you sure that you didn't forget to run update-grub2
> and are looking at /boot/grub/grub.cfg, not at the /etc/grub entries?
>
> -- Alex -- alex-goncharov at comcast.net --
>
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