Stand-alone GRUB HELP

John Do pcbsdguy at yahoo.ca
Sun Sep 11 22:17:11 PDT 2005


Hi Glen,

Thanks for the reply

I tried the following and there was no change to the
boot menu:

boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0
boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2


--- Glenn Dawson <glenn at antimatter.net> wrote:

> 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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