Stand-alone GRUB HELP

Glenn Dawson glenn at antimatter.net
Sun Sep 11 23:47:20 PDT 2005


At 10:17 PM 9/11/2005, John Do wrote:
>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

What does boot0cfg -v show for the two disks you have?  Output from 
fdisk and bsdlabel for both would be helpful too.

-Glenn


>--- 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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