Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:24:30 +0100, David wrote in message
<[🔎] jl1683$d5e$1@dough.gmane.org>:
> Hey all,
>
> I am trying to set up a dual-boot machine with Debian kFreeBSD (sid)
> and Debian Linux (squeeze). The machine has two hard disks, the
> first disk has kFreeBSD on it and I want to use this disk to boot
> both OSs. Squeeze is on the second disk. The kFreeBSD partition is
> UFS and the Squeeze partition is ext3.
>
> I have successfully installed both distros and wiped grub from the MBR
> of the second disk using dd.
..2 words; Big Mistake.
..you wanna put grub on _both_ disks, that way your worst scenario
becomes the grub command line, rather than some hung idiot hang.
> Other things I tried:
..you did try start at "root [tab]"? Should tell you what grub sees.
> I also tried going to the Grub command line and playing around a bit.
> This was interesting, because I was able to run "set
> root=(hd1,msdos1)" and then I could use the 'ls' command to show the
> contents of the second hard disk. So it seems that this line should
> not be the problem. I could even list and tab complete the name of
> the kernel file, exactly as it is in the menu entry, but then if I
> tried to boot the kernel I would get the same 'error: file not found'
..yes, grub, linux, FreeBSD and the bioses sees things _differently_.
> message, even though I had not changed the name of the kernel file at
> all.
..no need to. ;o)
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
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