On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:30:38PM -0700, Chris Reichow wrote: > While poking around for some UFS2 info, I found this: > > >You'll be surprised what grub can do.. > > > >place this in grub.conf > > > >root (hd0,x,y) > >chainloader (hd0,x,y)+1
This is chainloading. Any minimaly decent bootloader (including LILO) can do it. It simply means that you have more than one bootloader in your harddisk, in separate places (one in MBR and others in their respective partitions). Then you load GRUB which in turn loads FreeBSD's bootloader. It is not a good solution because it loses a lot of flexibility. For example, you can't install FreeBSD manualy (ie, mkfs, untar and run grub), or if your MBR is corrupted for some reason a GRUB rescue floppy will be unable to boot your installed system. It's only the preferred option for messy OSes without a documented boot method such as Microsoft Windows. This is not the case for FreeBSD of course. We still want support for UFS2 in GRUB, but if you have no longer motivation to work on it, I understand it.. If that's the case, I'd appreciate if you could put your (unfinished) patches in a public place so that someone else may continue your work. If you still want to work on UFS2 for GRUB; well, thank you! :) -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion) _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub