Hi, On 11/08/12 20:31, David Given wrote: > - I had some trouble finding a mirror --- do not all of them carry kFreeBSD?
Perhaps many do not, especially the testing distribution. I normally use: http://gb.kfreebsd-amd64.mirror.debian.net/debian (with the appropriate two-letter country code). > - installing grub failed. I want grub in the FreeBSD partition, not the > MBR, so this may not be a commonly tested path. It looks like it's > unable to find a mapping between the BSD device name for the partition > (/dev/ada0s6) and the BIOS drive. That could be the recently-fixed grub-installer bug (#613430: /proc not mounted in the target); unfortunately the fix didn't make it into the beta1 installer, but it should be fixed in sid_d-i daily builds; http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/kfreebsd-amd64/ A workaround is to drop into a shell when this happens, mount linprocfs onto /target/proc and re-run that install step. Installing directly to a UFS partition isn't something I've tried before myself. > - formatting the partition as UFS didn't remove the old jfs signature, > which caused some confusion later when the partition was misdetected. I > realise this isn't d-i's fault, but it was still awkward. The formatting process for UFS should wipe the first and last 512 KiB of the partition; maybe that's not enough? > I tried booting Linux Debian and running grub-update. > It failed to find the kFreeBSD installation. This is grub-pc:amd64 > 1.99-22.1. I'm not sure it's meant to, unless the kFreeBSD partition already contains a valid bootloader for it to chain-load. You could maybe repair the existing installation, by using the installer in rescue mode: http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_FAQ#Q._How_to_use_the_rescue_mode_of_the_installer After the extra installer components are loaded, drop to a shell, mount the root filesystem, chroot into it, mount linprocfs on /proc, and retry the installation of GRUB with: # dpkg-reconfigure -plow grub-pc ...which lets you choose where to install it to, then I think it runs update-grub automatically. > Are these issues known about? Would you like formal bug reports? It sounds like you hit a known issue in GRUB, but we should test that installing GRUB to a UFS partition works properly now. For the JFS detection it might be worth filing a bug against ufsutils. Either way, thanks for your feedback. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5026bcd9.60...@pyro.eu.org
