Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting

[Dan Bikle]

People,

this is great info; thanks for taking time to type it up.
I'm now convinced that Grub is good.

On my FreeBSD box I see this:

bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $ cat /etc/fstab
# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
Pass#
/dev/ad8s3b             none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/ad8s3a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
##/dev/ad8s4a           /u1             ufs     rw              1       1
/dev/acd0               /dvd1           cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
/dev/acd1               /dvd2           cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
linprocfs   /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs   rw   0  0
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $

bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $ df
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $ df
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $ df
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 4 $ df
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad8s3a  91913630 37443012 47117528    44%    /
devfs               1        1        0   100%    /dev
linprocfs           4        4        0   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 5 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 5 $

Comparing that with the information in the mail list
and this page:
http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-apr2006.html#21
suggests to me,
that this Grub entry would be appropriate:

title FreeBSD 5.5
        root (hd8,2,a)
        kernel /boot/loader

Anyone care to confirm before I pull the plug on my FreeBSD boot0 menu?

-Dan


On 9/16/06, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 17/09/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > FreeBSD and Linux people,
> >
> > I have a PC which I want to boot as windows, FreeBSD, and Suse 10.1Linux.
> >
> > Currently, FreeBSD boot0 menu shows both Windows and FreeBSD as
> > boot-able.
> >
> > The FreeBSD boot0 menu does not show the Linux OS (which I just
> > installed).
> >
> > So, I did some reading of the FreeBSD handbook:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
> >
> > It suggests that I have 2 ways to solve this problem:
> >
> > 1. Configure the FreeBSD boot0 menu so that it can boot
> > Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux
> >
> > Or,
> >
> > 2. Replace The FreeBSD boot0 menu with  LILO Boot Manager
> >
> > I like option 1.
> >
> > Q1: How do I add Suse 10.1 Linux to the FreeBSD boot0 menu?
> >
> > As for option 2,
> > if I want to try LILO, I'll need to toss my FreeBSD boot0 menu in the
> > trash.
> >
> > Q2: If I cannot get LILO to boot FreeBSD, how do I boot get
> > FreeBSD to boot and then how do I restore my old FreeBSD boot0 menu?
>
>
> AFAIK, FreeBSD's boot loader cannot be configured, but merely loads the
> OSes detected when it is run. If it does not detect something, you're out of
> luck.
>
> A better option than LILO is GRUB, which is installed by default by SUSE
> 10.x. XP will probably be detected by the installlation program, but if
> not, here's how to add both XP and FreeBSD to the menu:
>
> Edit the file /boot/grub/menu.1st. Create new entries as follows.
>
> # The following entries assume that Windows XP is on drive 0, partition 0
> (/dev/hda1 in Linux, /dev/ad0s1 in FBSD), with SuSE Linux on drive 0,
> partition 1 (/dev/hda2 or /dev/ad0s2), and FreeBSD on drive 1, partition 0
> (/dev/hdb1, /dev/ad1s0a)
>
> title=WindowsXP
> root (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> title=SuSE Linux 10.1
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel={the correct parameters should already be here}
>
> title=FreeBSD 6.1
> root (hd1,0,a)
> chainloader +1
>
> # menu.1st ends here
>
> HTH,
>
> Jeff.
>