FreeBSD and GRUB?

Henrik Hudson lists at rhavenn.net
Wed Jul 2 07:08:29 PDT 2003


On Wednesday 02 July 2003 03:49, Christian Laursen wrote:
> Henrik Hudson <lists at rhavenn.net> writes:
> > I installed Grub from ports (cvsup'ed from tonight) and can't quite get
> > her working.
> >
> > I am running 4.8rel.
> >
> > I copied in the various *stage file into /boot/grub . I created a
> > grub.conf and sym-linked menu.lst to it and made everything 444.
>
> Try having the real file be /boot/grub/menu.lst and make /etc/grub.conf a
> symlink to that.
>
> Personally I don't have any grub.conf and it works fine without it.
>
> Grub has very little chance to follow a symlink to another partition in the
> boot environment.

Yup. That worked. On my Gentoo box it has the symlink, so didn't think that 
would hurt here :) Thanks.

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