Stand-alone GRUB HELP
Glenn Dawson
glenn at antimatter.net
Sun Sep 11 21:58:48 PDT 2005
At 09:18 PM 9/11/2005, John Do wrote:
>Hi guys
>
>I have been reading documentation and I'm still
>confused.
>
>I have Windows on ad0 and FreeBSD on ad2
>
>I installed the BSD bootloader but it is only booting
>Windows.
>
>There is some limitation or problem and no matter what
>I try in the emergency shell I cannot configure
>boot0cfg to work properly.
>
>So I need two solutions to try:
>
>How do I configure the BSD boot loader to work to boot
>both Windows and FreeBSD? I have tried commands like
>
>boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 and it doesn't seem to help or
>boot
I think what you want is:
test54# boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0
test54# boot0cfg -B -s 1 ad2
If you reboot, you should end up booting from the first slice on ad2.
This is what everything looks like on one of my test boxes:
test54# boot0cfg -v ad4
# flag start chs type end chs offset size
1 0x00 0: 1: 1 0x07 1023:254:63 63 20964762
2 0x80 1023:255:63 0xa5 1023:254:63 20964825 20964825
3 0x00 1023:255:63 0x07 1023:254:63 41929650 61432560
4 0x00 1023:255:63 0xa5 1023: 80:63 103362210 287359758
version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182
options=packet,update,nosetdrv
default_selection=F5 (Drive 1)
test54# boot0cfg -v ad6
# flag start chs type end chs offset size
1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 1023:254:63 63 156296322
version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182
options=packet,update,nosetdrv
default_selection=F1 (Slice 1)
Not exactly the same as your setup, but close. On ad4, 1 is windows,
2 is FreeBSD, 3 and 4 are non-bootable. On ad6, 1 is FreeBSD.
-Glenn
>Second solution:
>
>Stand-alone GRUB install
>
>How can I install GRUB stand-alone? How do I install
>it into /boot? I guess /boot = some mounted partition
>of a unix OS?
>
>Would it be best to make /boot under the existing
>FreeBSD partition?
>
>The more exact details the better. I've been
>scratching my head over this for days
>
>thx!
>
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