Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting

[Adam Martin]

On 2006 Sep 18 , at 06:26, dick hoogendijk wrote:

> On 17 Sep Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote:
>> For me,
>> booting BSDa and other OS is easier with grub:
>> mine:
>>
>> FreeBSD 6.1
>>    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>    chainloader +1
>
> Is this chainloader thing still valid? To my knowledge grub knows about
> ufs2 nowadays.

	Chainloader is still valid.  However, it hands off control to the UFS 
boot blocks.  (The spinning /|\- thing.  If you press space during 
this, you get a simple interactive boot-loader, which lets you pick the 
next stage boot-loader.)  The danger with chainloader on UFS systems 
(or other filesystems) with grub, is if you try to chainload the boot 
blocks of a filesystem that has GRUB embedded on it.  In that case... 
you either recursively boot into grub... or worse, you get 
weirdnesses... and have to track down a boot disk.

	If you wish to chainload the boot-blocks, from grub, you're better off 
doing:

root( hd0,0,a )
chainloader /boot/boot2 # I think it's boot2  -- boot1 is a first 
stage, and needs boot2 in fixed location.

	Also, doing the bootloading from the filesystem with GRUB still passes 
off control to the FreeBSD loader, anyhow, so GRUB isn't the last step 
in the process.

		There's a whole host of other fun tricks to use with the FreeBSD 
bootloader, grub, and more.  I'd be happy to talk more about it, but I 
don't want to bore you.


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ADAM David Alan Martin


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