On Monday 11 August 2008, Bruno Schmitt wrote: > Ubuntu uses GRUB boot manager and as far as I remember it won't > recognize FreeBSD partition out of the box, so you will have to add > some lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst > > # For booting FreeBSD > title FreeBSD 5.2 > root (hd0,a) > chainloader +1 > > where "(hd0,a)" reflects the position of the FreeBSD primary > partition.
Grub does recognise FreeBSD partitions so you can use either the chainloader command or point grub directly to /boot/loader, though I can't speak for the Ubuntu version. Here's the menu file for my box with FreeBSD 6.3, FreeBSD 7.0 and Windoze: default 0 timeout 3 hiddenmenu color white/blue yellow/blue title FreeBSD 6.3 root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader title FreeBSD 7.0 root (hd0,1,a) kernel /boot/loader title MS Windows root (hd0,3) makeactive chainloader +1 title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"