Hi,
I know this has been covered a million different ways, but the answer I need still eludes me.
All I think I need is an entry to my menu.lst->grub.conf to choose FreedBSD instead of Fedora or BackTrack. I don't have Windows.
I found this:
Is that all there is to it? What is 3rd field, the little "a" for? Where is that? I know thats the 3rd partition on the the 1st drive, but "a"?
I don't have a problem w/ sitting here and installing BSD 10 times to get it just right. I do have a problem with "strange" installations touching my bootloader, mbr, etc. I like having at least one OS I can boot from the drive and connect with.
Basically, I'd like to just configue my partions out of free space, put /, /boot, and /home on separate partitions and point grub to /boot.
It seems simple in my head but I'm hearing a lot of advice here that seems odd. It must be because you all know somethign about this I don't. Also, I haven't had to worry about an IRQ in about 20 years. This sounds like setiing up Sys V back in the early days. No plug in play hacks I guess?
Anyway, if any other linux folks here that know how to point our boot menus to freebsd please let me know. I can figure the rest out (hopefully) as long as I don't hose my other OS's. I can figure out the smart way to do things tomorrow of the next day (like on the 10th install)
Thanks
I know this has been covered a million different ways, but the answer I need still eludes me.
All I think I need is an entry to my menu.lst->grub.conf to choose FreedBSD instead of Fedora or BackTrack. I don't have Windows.
I found this:
Code:
title FreeBSD
root (hd0,2,a)
kernel /boot/loader
Is that all there is to it? What is 3rd field, the little "a" for? Where is that? I know thats the 3rd partition on the the 1st drive, but "a"?
I don't have a problem w/ sitting here and installing BSD 10 times to get it just right. I do have a problem with "strange" installations touching my bootloader, mbr, etc. I like having at least one OS I can boot from the drive and connect with.
Basically, I'd like to just configue my partions out of free space, put /, /boot, and /home on separate partitions and point grub to /boot.
It seems simple in my head but I'm hearing a lot of advice here that seems odd. It must be because you all know somethign about this I don't. Also, I haven't had to worry about an IRQ in about 20 years. This sounds like setiing up Sys V back in the early days. No plug in play hacks I guess?
Anyway, if any other linux folks here that know how to point our boot menus to freebsd please let me know. I can figure the rest out (hopefully) as long as I don't hose my other OS's. I can figure out the smart way to do things tomorrow of the next day (like on the 10th install)
Thanks