Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In order for grub to work as a menu, it requires a stage 2 loader
> that resides somewhere on your hardrive outside of the MBR. It's my
> understanding that grub was too big to fit just in the MBR and that
> necessitated this arrangement. If you don't mind man
Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
It starts out on a floppy file system. Then you either
just boot off the floppy, or you install it to the hard disk MBR,
other first-track sectors, and maybe your OS's root FS. I don't
recall if you need a menu.lst or not. That is, I don't know if
Grub can be instal
jonas wrote:
AFAIK grub has problems with reading ufs (please correct me if i'm
wrong! maybe it's just because my grub version is a bit old ;) ).
you can get around this by putting the grub config on a partition grub
can read (like ext2fs or fat32) and then just chainload the freebsd
loader ins
John Do <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD
> loader has me lost after weeks :(
I know both enough to say that BSD's is way more intuitive
and much simpler to configure and install.
> I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader
> won't go awa
hi!
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:08:08 -0400 (EDT)
John Do <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone know how to install GRUB for FreeBSD when you
> can't boot to it?
you need at least one bootable operating system. try a livecd if youre
system doesnt boot at all.
> I even installed G
Anyone know how to install GRUB for FreeBSD when you
can't boot to it?
I am totally lost now guys with the booting.
FreeBSD bootloader has me so frustrated
Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD
loader has me lost after weeks :(
I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootl
