Re: grub2 not in ports?

2010-05-07 Thread Lokadamus
Am 07.05.2010 02:10, schrieb C. P. Ghost: Hello, has someone successfully ported GRUB2[1] to FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64? I see no port sysutils/grub2 in the tree, even though I know that GRUB2 *can* boot FreeBSD directly and via chain-loading. And while we're at it, I'm wondering if there

Re: grub2 not in ports?

2010-05-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
on the master boot record of your hard drive. To do this, or to use it with a floppy disk, you will need to read the info page that is installed by the port. Of course: grub/grub2 ports aren't supposed to install anything on the MBR by default. You're right: one has to invoke 'grub' specifically

grub2 not in ports?

2010-05-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello, has someone successfully ported GRUB2[1] to FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64? I see no port sysutils/grub2 in the tree, even though I know that GRUB2 *can* boot FreeBSD directly and via chain-loading. And while we're at it, I'm wondering if there is an effort underway to make the kernel