Installed BSD, how to add BSD partition to existing grub?

[disappearedng]

Hi everyone.
I installed Ubuntu like half a year ago and recently I have decided to give BSD a try. I formatted my windows partition and successfully installed BSD on that partition. When prompted to use BSD's boot manager, I picked no because I like the way grub functions.

So here's the tricky question:
How do I add my BSD partition as a boot option into my grub menu?
I am in my Ubuntu right now, and I don't know how the system will automatically be able to detect

This is my grub menu file: "

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-17-generic root=UUID=5a780324-ac66-4eb0-a75d-54f433b9c677 ro acpi_sleep=s3_bios
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-17-generic root=UUID=5a780324-ac66-4eb0-a75d-54f433b9c677 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=5a780324-ac66-4eb0-a75d-54f433b9c677 ro acpi_sleep=s3_bios
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=5a780324-ac66-4eb0-a75d-54f433b9c677 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
"

Now windows vista no longer exists. How do I add my BSD partition onto it?
What are the commands?

[scottro]

This should work (untested for years though, as these days I use GAG if multibooting).

title FreeBSD
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

In other words, it should still work, you're just chaging the title (and the makeactive is probably unnecessary.)

The other way, which also used to work (though at one point, GRUB was unable to detect UFS2, but I believe that was fixed years ago)

title FreeBSD
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /boot/loader

I repeat, I haven't tested either of these for years, but even if they don't work, they won't damage anything.

[disappearedng]

But bsd has so many paritions that comes with it.
How do I know which is the one that I should boot?

How do I find out which /dev/? is my BSD partition?

Thanks

PS: How is GAG coming along? Would you recommend it? is it easy to manipulate? Do I have to give up my existing grub bootloader menu for GAG?

[Sef]

Moved to BSD discussions.

[Bachstelze]

First things first. Which BSD did you install ? Also, please paste the output of


sudo fdisk -l

[scottro]

My bad, in two places, I assumed FreeBSD, and mental shorthand.

From your post, I gathered that you put the BSD in the partition that had belonged to Windows, in other words, what grub sees as hd0,0.

As for BSD partitions, in general (I'm pretty sure this is for all of them, but at the moment, I only have a FreeBSD one to check, it would be something like

/dev/ad0 is the entire disk
ad0s1 is the BSD partition.
ad0s1a is root
ad0s1b is swap
ad0s1c is the raw partition, don't worry about it.
As a rule d is /var/, e /tmp and f /usr but this might differ.

At any rate, IF you put FreeBSD in the partition that had been the Windows one, the syntax I gave you should work as written. The /boot/kernel part is on slice a, the root partition.

Now, rereading your post I see you had two Windows partitions. I'm not sure which one is used for BSD, but the syntax I gave you should work--just, if you put it in the partition that Windows had, that was hd0,1 just replace the hd0,0 that I wrote before with hd0,1 and it should work.
Hopefully, I've been clearer this time, if not, post again, (though I'm going to sleep now, so probaby won't see it till the morning.) :)

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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 816 6549504 27 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 * 816 4486 29483267 a5 FreeBSD
/dev/sda3 4487 19089 117293400 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 19089 19457 2955960 5 Extended
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5 19089 19457 2955928+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[Bachstelze]

So the two suggestions scottro made in post #2 should work, with hd0,1 instead of hd0,0.

[disappearedng]

Alright! everything works! thanks alot!