Boot (multiboot)

[AllanP]

Hello
I'm thinking of giving FreeBSD a shot. I have at present Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse and XP OS's. Does FreeBSD use the same boot process. I'm just wondering as I will keep Ubuntu handling the boot; is there a /boot/grub/menu.lst for the boot loader?

Thanks.

 

[ale]

I'm just wondering as I will keep Ubuntu handling the boot

Yes.
Just choose None - Leave the Master Boot Record untouched you will be asked by sysinstall about the boot manager, soon after partitioning.
The add something like

title FreeBSD
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /boot/loader

to your menu.lst.
You have to set the root according to your system. In the example, hd0 is the first hd, 0 is the first partition, a is the FreeBSD partition.

 

[SirDice]

Does FreeBSD use the same boot process.

It's quite a bit different actually. Have a read here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot.html

The Handbook contains a wealth of information, I really recommend reading it.

The boot manager that comes with FreeBSD is somewhat arcane so if you can use the grub from ubuntu.