GRUB gets eaten by BSD boot loader?

JZL240I-U · 10-06-2008, 04:16 AM

I installed SuSE 11.0's /boot in /dev/sda1 (with / in /dev/sda9). /dev/sda2 holds openSolaris, /dev/sda3 FreeBSD 6.0 which I used to (up to SuSE 10.3) load with its own boot loader chainloaded by GRUB.

When I do start FreeBSD now it comes up and runs normally. Upon reboot I don't see GRUB at all but I see only FreeBSD's loader. Now what the ... ?

To get back to my system I had to re-install GRUB. That is not the way I want to handle this

. Anybody with any ideas at all? What is happening here? What can I read?

amani · 10-06-2008, 11:34 AM

Never seen such behaviour. Is it due to the bios?

Do you get the same behaviour after shutdown?

See the BSD manual too

JZL240I-U · 10-07-2008, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by amani

...Is it due to the bios?

No. I made no changes and the entire setup worked before. Btw. all systems are on the same disk:

/dev/hda1 = /boot (GRUB)
/dev/hda2 = openSolaris
/dev/hda3 = FreeBSD 6.0
/dev/hda4 = extended...

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Originally Posted by amani

Do you get the same behaviour after shutdown?

Yes. Even after complete power down / off. Looks like the MBR is overwritten, but how? Is it really so?

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Originally Posted by amani

See the BSD manual too

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