On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:27:07 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>>>> so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the >>>>> prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. > > I had some trouble with this myself and tried all sorts of things. Grub2 > wouldn't find it.
You may have missed something because GRUB2 is more than capable of booting it. > I tried GAG: > > http://gag.sourceforge.net/ > > ...which is very good and detects everything, but would only boot > PC-BSD. Maybe because some sort of incompatibility between GAG and GRUB2. > The only thing I haven't tried is something somebody suggested had > worked for them on another forum, and that was to downgrade to > Grub-Legacy. Apparently that works. > This I haven't tried, so I give no guarantee. Regards, That can be seen as a workaround but remember that GRUB Legacy is not being developed anymore. Using GRUB2 (or another supported bootloader) should be the way to go. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jl9o27$r1h$7...@dough.gmane.org