Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-22 Thread backyard
--- Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 21, 2006, at 6:41 PM, backyard wrote: > > > > > > > --- Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> backyard wrote: > >>> I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell > >>> Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting > >> thi

Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Aug 21, 2006, at 6:41 PM, backyard wrote: --- Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted

Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-21 Thread backyard
--- Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > backyard wrote: > > I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell > > Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting > this > > server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't > the > > biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice > > inappropriat

Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... It will boot from a floppy, but i

Re: GRUB problems

2005-04-27 Thread Björn König
Michael Thaler wrote: (even though it should mention somewhere that you MUST install FreeBSD on a primary partition) Hello, read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/de/books/handbook/disk-organization.html The slice/partition issue is one of the most confusing things for beginners. Björn _

Re: GRUB problems

2005-04-27 Thread Michael Thaler
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:54, Dan Nelson wrote: > You probably don't have ufs support built into grub. I find it easier > to just chain to the bootblock instead: > > root(hd0,2) > chainloader +1 That did the trick! Thank you very much! So far I am quite pleased with PC-BSD. The installation

Re: GRUB problems

2005-04-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 27), Michael Thaler said: > Hello, > > I just installed PC-BSD which is based on FreeBSD5.3, but comes with > a graphical installer. > > I already have Windows XP and Debian Linux installed on my computer, > so I could not install PC-BSD in a primary partition at the begi