[arch-general] Editing grub for dual boot?

[Mauro Santos]

On 23-04-2016 22:41, bill . wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> BSD is on a primary so that's not the issue.
> 
> When i added this to grub.cfg it puts the bsd option in my grub at bootup, but when i select it i get the error "invalid signature." I tried replacing msdos1 with msdos3 since my bsd is on the third primary partition, but same result. I have checked the syntax several times. Does this error have to do with my placement within the file (near the end before memtest) or another error? Many thanks!
> peace
> -bill
> 
>> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:04:36 +0200
>> From: silver.bullet at zoho.com
>> To: arch-general at archlinux.org
>> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Editing grub for dual boot?
>>
>> To boot FreeBSD I needed to add a chainloader to the Linux's grub.cfg.
>>
>> menuentry "FreeBSD"{
>>     set root=(hd0,msdos1)
>>     chainloader +1
>> }
>>
>> Note, at least FreeBSD needs to be on a primary or GPT partition.
>  		 	   		  
> 

You might have to mark the partition as active/bootable and you might
have to hide other partitions.

It all depends on what the bsd is expecting to find in regards to
partitions. I've never used it so I can't be of much help besides guesses.

-- 
Mauro Santos