Re: grub2 on ubuntu 10.10 can't find loader on 1st partation

[tom oakes]

Goh Lip wrote:
> On Wednesday 27,October,2010 05:20 AM, tom oakes wrote:
> > BTW: the big disk was partitioned by the freebsd 8.1 installer. I
> > deleted partition 3 and created a extended partition in its place with
> > two logical petitions. One is used for ubuntu and the other for swap.
> >
> > If anyone knows anything else I should try please let me know.
>
> Tom, some time back, and I cannot recall whether it was grub-legacy or 
> grub2, and pcbsd or netbsd; I had installed the %bsd for a very short 
> time, and booted it with the grub% without issue.
>
> From your statement above, it could be that the devicemap was not set 
> up with the bsd partition. So you might want to try the following..
>
> $ grub-mkdevicemap
> $ update-grub
>
> Good luck, hope this helps,
>
> Regards - Goh Lip
>
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I finally got the system fixed so I can now boot both the freebsd and 
the ubuntu from the hard disk. I had to dis-install grub2 and install 
grub-legacy.  There were direction to do this on the ubuntu10-10 manual 
page. Grub-legacy worked the first time. I guess that the grub team 
needs to pay attention to "If it a'int broke don't fix it "

Tom oakes