Re: Booting FreeBSD 5.x from an extended partition?

2003-06-17 Thread Nate Lawson
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Michael Gehm wrote: > > unable to boot FreeBSD 5.x on a logical partition. > > FreeBSD needs basically a primary partition/slice This didn't seem to be a problem with FreeBSD since grub's "root" command was the one returning an error of finding an unknown filesystem. The prob

Re: Booting FreeBSD 5.x from an extended partition?

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Gehm
> unable to boot FreeBSD 5.x on a logical partition. FreeBSD needs basically a primary partition/slice Greetings Michael -- If Linux doesn't have the solution you have the wrong problem. Registered Linux user #191 807ICQ # 125941330 http://www.michael-gehm.de http://ww

Booting FreeBSD 5.x from an extended partition?

2003-06-17 Thread Nate Lawson
I appreciate Grub -- great utility. I am successfully booting Windows and FreeBSD 5.x on primary partitions and Linux in a logical partition but am unable to boot FreeBSD 5.x on a logical partition. This works for FreeBSD on a primary partition: root (hd0,3,a) kernel /boot/loader Doing this fail