Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting

[Dan Bikle]

Well,

I rolled the dice and tried grub.
Moral: grub is good.

Details:

I decided to re-install Suse 10.1 so I could interact with the mechanism
which installs Grub.

Then...
I found this in /boot/grub/menu.lst

suse:/boot/grub # cat menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Sep 17 05:08:44 UTC 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE Linux 10.1
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6    apm=off acpi=off mce=off
barrier=off ide=nodma idewait=50 i8042.nomux psmouse.proto=bare irqpoll
pci=nommconf resume=/dev/sda5  splash=silent showopts
    initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###
title windows 1
    chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###
title windows 2
    chainloader (hd0,1)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off
noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
    initrd /boot/initrd

It looks like Suse thinks the disk is named hd0 rather than hd8.

So, I added this entry:

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: FreeBSD
5.5###
title FreeBSD 5.5
  root (hd0,2,a)
  kernel /boot/loader

This is a direct pattern off of the discussion here:
http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-apr2006.html#21
And the grub file in front of my face.

Then I rebooted and saw a nice Grub menu with FreeBSD 5.5
listed on the bottom.

I picked it.

It sent me to the Beastie boot menu I'm so familiar with.

And I used that to boot my FreeBSD box.

I'm jazzed.

I wish golf were this easy.

Thanks gentlemen.

-Dan


On 9/16/06, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 17/09/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > People,
> >
> > this is great info; thanks for taking time to type it up.
> > I'm now convinced that Grub is good.
> >
> > On my FreeBSD box I see this:
> >
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $ cat /etc/fstab
> > # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> > Pass#
> > /dev/ad8s3b             none            swap    sw              0
> > 0
> > /dev/ad8s3a             /               ufs     rw              1
> > 1
> > ##/dev/ad8s4a           /u1             ufs     rw              1
> > 1
> > /dev/acd0               /dvd1           cd9660  ro,noauto       0
> > 0
> > /dev/acd1               /dvd2           cd9660  ro,noauto       0
> > 0
> > linprocfs   /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs   rw   0  0
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $
> >
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $ df
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $ df
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $ df
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $ df
> > Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/ad8s3a  91913630 37443012 47117528    44%    /
> > devfs               1        1        0   100%    /dev
> > linprocfs           4        4        0   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 5 $
> > bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 5 $
> >
> > Comparing that with the information in the mail list
> > and this page:
> >
> > http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-apr2006.html#21
> > suggests to me,
> > that this Grub entry would be appropriate:
> >
> > title FreeBSD 5.5
> >         root (hd8,2,a)
> >         kernel /boot/loader
> >
>
> Dang, I always mix up XP and FBSD syntax. Yes, that looks fine. Good luck!
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> Jeff
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