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Gogeden

I'll come right out and say it: I'm absolutely oblivious as to how FreeBSD works. I normally fool around with the Linux environment and occasionally Windows. It took me awhile to figure out how to install FreeBSD 8.0 but I got it. When the installation was complete, I selected to boot up FreeBSD and everything was going fine until it gave me a command prompt with a "#". How do I install the GUI?


Also, I use Grub as my boot-loader (I'm more familiar with it then BSD's boot-loader) how would I go about adding FreeBSD to the list so that I may boot from it. I had to do a re-install of Ubuntu Jaunty and when Grub installed itself on my HDD it brought FreeBSD up as "Chain-load to blah blah blah" (Sorry can't quite recall what it said) and I can't boot back into it.


Sorry for these lame questions lol. I really want to try this out because I've heard some good things about it and they peaked my curiosity. I hope someone out there can help!


Thank you! :P
 
This works for me:

Code: 
title FreeBSD
        root (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1

If it doesn't for you, maybe you are pointing to the wrong partition or your ubuntu install overwrote your fbsd install..
 
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