2012/12/3 Daniel F. Savarese <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > In message <1354198069.3059.6.camel@q>, Ralf Mardorf writes: > >Until now I was comfortable with GRUB legacy, but now I add a FreeBSD > >install to my machine and against the claims at > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders > > > >GRUB legacy does not boot FreeBSD (until now). I was thinking of > > grub 0.97 does boot FreeBSD. I have Arch Linux and FreeBSD 9.0 running > on an old (circa 1999) laptop and boot both using grub. In case it's of > any use to you, here's my grub.conf/menu.lst entry: > > title FreeBSD > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > daniel > > That is not GRUB booting FreeBSD, that's GRUB chainloading FreeBSD's bootloader. -- Leonardo Dagnino
