Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting

[Jeff Rollin]

On 17/09/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Dang, I always mix up XP and FBSD syntax. Yes, that looks fine. Good luck!

Jeff