Need to recreate grub menu.lst

[talikarng]

I can currently dual boot windows xp and kubuntu through the grub menu. I recently installed freebsd onto a spare partition (this means that i would triple boot) but the freebsd loader didn't let me go into kubuntu.

I reloaded grub from the livecd and pointed it back to my kubuntu partition but my question is: How can I get grub to add my freebsd partition to menu.lst without having to reinstall kubuntu?

[banewman]

Does typing
sudo update-grub
in a konsole give you any luck?

[mick8985]

The simplest way is to do something like

title FreeBSD
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Where (hd0,1) refers to the partition you have BSD on, so amend to wherever you installed it

[talikarng]

Thankyou to both of you;

I had to put in the code above without the makeactive line and it worked. What does the makeactive line do anyway?

[Ptero-4]

It makes that partition the active one, this is mostly required for M$ Windoze.