Dual-boot does not work with GRUB

Bill Schoolcraft bill at wiliweld.com
Mon Dec 22 20:14:29 PST 2003


At Tue, 23 Dec 2003 it looks like Jaroslaw Nozderko composed:

>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1             1        65    522081   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2            66      3889  30716280   83  Linux
> /dev/hda3   *      3890      7713  30716280   a5  FreeBSD
> /dev/hda4          7714     14593  55263600    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5          7714     10263  20482843+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6         10264     11793  12289693+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7         11794     13068  10241406   83  Linux
> /dev/hda8         13069     14088   8193118+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda9         14089     14219   1052226   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda10        14220     14350   1052226   83  Linux
>
> FreeBSD partition is visible as hda3 under Linux and ad0s3 under
> FreeBSD. It has 3 slices:
>
> swap     1 GB    ad0s3b
> /home1   1 GB    ad0s3d
> /       28 GB    ad0s3a
>
> After reading GRUB documentation, I've prepared the following
> entry in grub.conf:
>
> # FreeBSD
> title FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
> 	root (hd0,2,a)
> 	kernel /boot/loader
>

Hello,

I experienced some problems with GRUB back with Linux in an
earlier release where it actually started counting at 1, not 0.

Try setting root to hd0,3,a

I hope this helps.

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