How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

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----- Original Message -----

> From: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727 at bellsouth.net>
> To: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:47 AM
> Subject: Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?
> 
>>  Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux?
> 
>>  I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to 
> mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file 
> system
> +type.
> 
>>  Any help in this regard is very much appreciated.
> 
>>  Many thanks in advance.
> 
>>  Unga
> 
> Not yet, but I intend to, once I get Linux built and installed, possibly 
> starting with a cross-compile from FreeBSD 9.
> 
> On my older computer, i386 (32-bit), I dual-boot FreeBSD 8.2 and Linux 
> (Slackware) using LILO, also FreeDOS on another hard disk, can even boot 
> grub4dos and Plop (http://www.plop.at/) boot manager from LILO.
> 
> Can you use rootnoverify with grub1 (you must mean grub 0.97)?
> 
Yes, it is 0.97. 

> You could also try grub2, which is in the ports under sysutils.
> 
> Is your hard disk partitioned MBR or GPT?
> 

Its MBR.

> My hard disk is partitioned GPT, I still can't boot the hard disk directly, 
> but using the System Rescue CD (http://sysresccd.org/), I go to the Super Grub 
> Disk in the floppy images, hit c to get to command prompt, and
> 
> set root=(hd0,3)
> kfreebsd /boot/loader
> boot
> 
> You would use the actual FreeBSD partition which will probably be different from 
> (hd0,3).
> 
> Tom
> 

Tom,  thanks for the reply. I managed to get both OpenSUSE 11.4 and FreeBSD 9 dual-boot on i386 desktop computer.

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