Booting Ubuntu and freebsd side by side

Uffe Jakobsen uffe at uffe.org
Sun May 20 14:15:21 UTC 2012



Hi,

On 2012-05-19 20:59, سید احمد حسینی wrote:
> I used boot0 with boot9cfg : boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 ada0
> And I can see boot0 menu ,but Ubuntu can't boot!
> On May 19, 2012 11:26 PM, "سید احمد حسینی"<ahmadtux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>

You should make sure that GRUB is installed in the PBR (partition boot 
record) of your ubuntu partition and not in the MBR since boot0 lives there.

I've done that with Linux Mint Debian Edition - and it works.

/Uffe


>> I used boot0 with boot9cfg :
>> boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0
>> And I can see boot0 menu ,but Ubuntu can't boot!
>> On May 19, 2012 11:17 PM, "User Wojtek"<wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>   How can I boot Ubuntu12.4  do with FreeBSD9 ?
>>>> when I using boot0 , Linux  was shown, but would not start without a
>>>> message!
>>>> Where is the problem?
>>>>
>>>> can launch freebsd with Ubuntu GRUB?
>>>> How?
>>>>
>>>
>>> install ubuntu (or whatever) on one MBR partition, FreeBSD on another
>>> then install partition selector with
>>>
>>> boot0cfg -B /dev/yourdisk
>>>
>>> and select F1...F4 at boot.
>>> that simple
>>>





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