Add FreeBSD to Grub Menu

Antonio Olivares wingators at inbox.com
Mon Oct 1 00:29:52 UTC 2012



> -----Original Message-----
> From: lists at colorremedies.com
> Sent: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:46:00 -0600
> To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: Add FreeBSD to Grub Menu
> 
> 
> On Sep 28, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
>> Dear folks,
>> 
>> I have a machine that has FreeBSD 9 and Fedora 18 Alpha. I try to add
>> FreeBSD to grub menu and it is failing to add it.
>> 
>> I have added the following to 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" {
>>    insmod part_msdos
>>    set root='(hd0,msdos3)'
>>    chainloader +1
> 
> msdos3 is a Linux partition. Your fdisk results indicate FreeBSD is on
> hd0,msdos1.
> 
> 
> Chris Murphy
> --

Thank you Chris for noticing.  I copied it from the Fedora 17 aspire netbook :(
Tried changing it to msdos1 and it does not show up in grub menu :(
What shall I try next?

Regards,


Antonio

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