Fixing Grub on a multi OS boot

stan stanb at panix.com
Sun Oct 30 22:43:27 UTC 2005


On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:36:04PM +0100, Goran Ristic wrote:
> Hi stan!
> 
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, stan wrote:
> 
> > I just installed 5.10 on a laptop that had Debian and FreeBSD on it.
> > I was careful with the partion editor, to replace only teh Debian partion,
> > now grub only offers me ubuntu as a choice. Grub replaced the existing
> > bootlader BYW :-(
> > 
> > How can I fix this?
> 
> ...by adding the BSD by hand? ;)
> Take a look in /usr/share/doc/grub. There are examples how to enable
> different OS.
> 
Thanks, I got it working.

It was as simple as editing /boot/grub/menu.lst there were even examples in it.
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