Install GRUB for FreeBSD

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Sun Sep 18 18:14:12 PDT 2005



jonas wrote:
> AFAIK grub has problems with reading ufs (please correct me if i'm
> wrong! maybe it's just because my grub version is a bit old ;) ).
> you can get around this by putting the grub config on a partition grub
> can read (like ext2fs or fat32) and then just chainload the freebsd
> loader installed into the freebsd partition. of course this is not the
> best solution but it works for me :)
> 
> greets,
> jonas

I use grub installed on a ufs filesystem and it has absolutely no 
problems reading config files, stages, or splash screens from it.

Later,
Micah


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