Partition help

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manblue

I recently installed Ubuntu on my first hard drive, but FreeBSD is on the second Hard drive, /dev/sdb. The new install uses grub2, but I have not been successful with the solutions contributed by the forums. Running gparted reveals a strange order in my partition. FreeBSD sits on /dev/sdb2 and is placed in front of /dev/sdb1 which is storage (file system = ntfs).



I believe this happened when I deleted a partition to install FreeBSD again. Grub 1 worked, but grub 2 doesn't. Is there a way to fix this? This is my FreeBSD entry for /etc/grub.d/40_custom.

Code: 
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.

menuentry "freebsd 8.2"{
        insmod ufs2
	set root=(hd1,1)
	kfreebsd /boot/loader
}

Thanks
 
Try this....

Code: 
menuentry "freebsd 8.2"{
        insmod ufs2
	set root=(hd1,1)
	chainloader +1
}

Also.... don't forget to run sudo update-grub after editing the grub file in Ubuntu.
 
not quite

Thanks for the reply JimW, but I no longer get "error: file not found".

Now I just get a blinking cursor at the top left of the screen.
 
manblue said:
Thanks for the reply JimW, but I no longer get "error: file not found".

Now I just get a blinking cursor at the top left of the screen.
Click to expand...

Trial and error my friend. :)

It's odd that your sdb2 partition is showing up first in GParted. I've never seen it displayed that way.

Then.... try this...change the partition line to this...

Code: 
set root=(hd1,2)

Then update your grub.
 
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