adding freebsd boot to grub

mess-mate messmate at tiscali.fr
Wed Sep 3 12:42:29 PDT 2003


On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:16:39 -0700
Desmond Lee <desmond.lee at shaw.ca> wrote:

| Hello
| 
| I was originally running win98 and freebsd4.8 on a box with 2 hard
| drives. 1 disk had win98 and the other had freebsd. Everything worked
| fine. But I then installed redhat 9.0 on the first disk with win 98. Now
| the Grub only knows how to boot dos and linux, but no freebsd. There is
| a article about this on the freebsd page:
| http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/ch3.html.
| This is almost the same scenario as me. However, I do not want to do a
| complete install of all 3 operating systems. Is it possible to just
| reinstall freebsd on my 2nd hard drive again and get grub to recognize
| it is there?
| 
| Thanks
| 
| Desmond
What I did in menu.lst :
# For booting FreeBSD
title  FreeBSD 5.1
root   (hd1,0,a)	# second hd, slice0, part a = '/'
makeactive
chainloader +1
mess-mate


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