Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:19:23AM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Thanks for you help. I figured out my problem. I was trying to install
> grub to (hd0) while running gnome. I read some more of the manual for
> grub and realized that I had to create a floppy disk to do the
> installation. So, I created the floppy and rebooted and ran the commands
> again and everything went well. 

Hm, then I think Grub cannot write to your HD when it is mounted.  Or
something like that.  Anyway, that step has to be performed just once.
You can always change your configfile, Grub will read it in at boot
time.  

> The only thing is. It doesn't use grub.conf, it uses menu.lst to
> create the menu.

Ok.  Then grub.conf was used in older versions.  I thought it was the
other way around, but I always just symlinked one to the other. 

> Would I be able to use the installation of RedHat Core 2's grub, to make
> my grub look pretty? I also, noticed that RedHat has a pretty little
> thing or gui when booting up. How would I integrate that to FreeBSD?

The difference is in their configfile, it probably uses colors and some
background.  Try "grub bootsplash" on Google and you'll find plenty of 
howto's. 

> Thanks man,
> Bruce

Happy to help you, 

GH