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


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