Adding FBSD to existing GRUB

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Sat Jul 3 09:26:04 PDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 12:01 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I have a multiboot machine with Linux and FBSD currently set up as
> follows:
> 
> /dev/hda1 5GB Linux SUSE root partition from 0 -652
> /dev/hda2 40.5GB Extended partition from 653 - 5945
> /dev/hda3 19.5GB FreeBSD partition from 5946 -8494
> /dev/hda5 5GB /usr partition for SUSE from 653 - 1305
> /dev/hda6 15GB /home partition for SUSE from 1306 - 3264
> /dev/hda7 1 GB swap from 3265 - 3395
> /dev/hda8 19.5GB linux partition for Libranet from 3396 - 5945
> 
> I tried adding the following to my /etc/fstab, but it would not boot
> (saying unsupported file type):
> 
> title FreeBSD 5.2.1
>     root (hd0,2,a)
>     kernel /boot/loader
> 
> Is the above misentered or is there something else to consider?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Sorry, the above *should* have read /etc/grub.conf and *not* fstab.

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Trey
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