--- On Sun, 4/22/12, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Grubs really aren't very attractive... > To: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sunday, April 22, 2012, 2:41 PM > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:32:48 +0100 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Are you sure you're not just talking about > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804835 ? > > Sure. I'm just reading the writing on the wall :-). > They spew messages about it being fragile, they > require a --force option, there are old bugzillas > upstream from when they broke it previously. It is bound > to stop functioning completely someday. > I hope not :) It was an adventure to get the FreeBSD entry into it, but I managed: [again without assistance from test-list it would have been harder! :( ] [olivares@acer-aspire-1 ~]$ cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. menuentry "FreeBSD 9.0" { insmod part_msdos set root='(hd0,msdos3)' chainloader +1 } Then the defaults file removed the rhgb and quiet so I could see all the startup services :) [olivares@acer-aspire-1 ~]$ cat /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Fedora" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=us rd.lvm.lv=vg_acer-aspire-1/lv_root rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_acer-aspire-1/lv_swap LANG=en_US.UTF-8 " [olivares@acer-aspire-1 ~]$ But to do what you do, Tom, I admire you! You solve the complex problem of chainloading several distros all at once. I am just happy to have a triple boot going :) I solved some dual boot issues with lilo on slackware, but on Fedora with grub2, it is an adventure! > -- Best Regards, Antonio -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
