Hi Dave, Does it work if you put 'makeactive' right below rootnoverify?
Cheers, Antonio Huete 2010/12/30 Dragon Fly <dragonflyb...@gmail.com>: > Happy New Year, 2011! > > I have installed FreeBSD (sdc1) and DragonFlyBSD (sdc4) and for some reason > I am unable to boot DragonFlyBSD (the boot doesnt move) unless I hide sdc1. > I understand that DragonFlyBSD uses the same partition id (0xA5) as FreeBSD > and that is what messing up the boot order. I've tried installing DesktopBSD > as well but when I choose to boot DesktopBSD it boots FreeBSD. > > Here are menu.lst entries - > > >> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: other### >> title FreeBSD 8.1 i386 >> rootnoverify (hd2,0) >> chainloader +1 >> >> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: other### >> title DragonFlyBSD-2.8.2-amd64 >> rootnoverify (hd2,3) >> chainloader +1 > > Here is Geometry - > >> grub> geometry (hd2) >> drive 0x82: C/H/S = 56065/255/63, The number of sectors = 1953525168, >> /dev/disk >> /by-id/ata-ST31000528AS_6VP53TG2 >> Partition num: 0, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow] >> BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 >> BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 >> BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5 >> BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5 >> BSD Partition num: 'f', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5 >> BSD Partition num: 'g', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5 >> Partition num: 1, Filesystem type is jfs, partition type 0x83 >> Partition num: 3, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow] >> BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5 >> BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 >> BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5 >> BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5 > > I will like to compile DragonFlyBSD kernel with this option - > >> options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:ad8s4a\" > > How do I do this (with what command) and should it be ufs:ad8s3a or ad8s4a. > In /etc/fstab it says s4a. I am booting everything of SUSE GrUB and it reads > sdc1 partition as (hd2,0) I am a n00b at DragonFlyBSD and will appreciate > your help. > > Best, > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > >