Booting Release 5.2 and XP

[Mark Phillips]

On Friday 30 January 2004 4:35 am, greg wrote:

> > Try something like:
> > Replace in /boot/grub/grub.conf something like:
> >  ------------------------------------------------------
> >    title BSD/UN*X FreeBSD 5.1 (UFS2)
> >         root (hd1,0,a)
> >         kernel /boot/loader
> >  ------------------------------------------------------
> >  to:
> >  ------------------------------------------------------
> >    title BSD/UN*X FreeBSD 5.1 (UFS2)
> >         root (hd1,0,a)
> >         chainloader +1
> >  ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > It is supposed to work. If not, post on rofug at rofug.ro asking about how
> > to do it.
>
> I will research that. When I tried to install grub from ports, It gave
> me a message "GRUB does not support booting from UFS (yet)." I do not
> have an ext2 filesystem to install GRUB on.

Hi Greg,

I've just rebooted back into SUSE from FreeBSD. I use Grub to boot them 
both, and Win2k (for how often it gets used, I might as well dump it ;-))

I can safely say even with UFS2 on 5.2, I can boot with

title FreeBSD
  rootnoverify (hd0,1)
  chainloader +1

Windows uses the usual 

title Windows
    root (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1
    makeactive

with my partition table looking like...

Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      1305  10482381    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2          1306      2610  10482412+  a5  FreeBSD
/dev/hda3          2611     14592  96245415    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          2611      2741   1052226   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6          2742     14586  95144931   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda7         14587     14592     48163+  83  Linux

Cheers,

--Mark