FreeBSD on Laptop
Ok, because I should learn for university I installed FreeBSD on my laptop ;o). Installing FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC was no problem, but booting it via Grub was tricky ;-). But finally I got it working:
root@tweety:/home/mika# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13212 6658816+ a5 FreeBSD
/dev/hda2 13213 23460 5164897+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 23461 37852 7253347+ 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4 37852 38760 457852+ 82 Linux swap
root@tweety:/home/mika# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst | sed -ne "/FreeBSD/,/^$/p"
title FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
root@tweety:/home/mika#
Local network (but currently without the VPN/PPTP-stuff) seems to work fine. When configuring and then starting X FreeBSD freezed – huh?! Ok, now I am booting Linux and taking the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as a template. Let’s have a look ;-).