On 01/28/2012 08:54 AM, Bas Smeelen wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:10 +0000
Kaya Saman<kayasa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
am just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to boot FreeBSD
9.0 and Linux.
I run Fedora 16 x64 with Grub installed in my MBR.
FBSD9 installed as the new disk scheme GPT..... I think (I manually
partitioned as my disk is quite crowded).
Anyway I found this:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-October/234858.html
and at the moment I have this in my Grub config:
menuentry 'FreeBSD 9.0' {
set root=(ada0,1,a)
kfreebsd /boot/loader
boot
}
But unfortunately no boot :-(
I have tried using (hd0,0), (hd0,1,a), (hd0,0,a), and (hd0,a) but
unfortunately nothing is working.
The Grub version is 2.
Can anyone help me?
Hi
I have the following partition layout
P1 linux swap
P2 FreeBSD
P3 linux
P4 extended which holds 2 more linux partitions
FreeBSD 9 installed on P2 and the FreeBSD bootloader on P2
In /etc/grub.d/40_custom I have put the following:
menuentry "FreeBSD" {
set root=(hd0,2)
chainloader +1
}
Then run update-grub as root.
The (hd0,2) entry means first harddisk (this laptop only has one) and
the second partition, which holds the FreeBSD bootloader that gets
loaded with the enry chainloader +1.
This works for me. Hope it helps.
I think with the way you have the setup now, a module must be loaded
first in the grub config. Insmod ufs or similair.
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Thanks for the response!!
Actually I got this working but eventually was up for nearly 24 hours
which meant I was too tired to post back here :-)
My Grub is just weird! Which is why I couldn't work things out. For
anyone running Fedora 16 or alike this may help; I have this partition
layout:
1. FreeBSD UFS2
4. Extended Partition
5. Linux / Ext4
2 Linux Swap
3 Linux JFS
Don't ask why 4,5 partitions but Fedora installer took over and left me
with no control otherwise Fedora should have been on 2.
Now the Grub entry is as follows:
menuentry 'FreeBSD 9.0' {
insmod part_msdos
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
chainloader +1
}
I have no idea why my version of grub is sooo different from everyone
elses as finding many dualboot bsd/linux combos with Grub entries being
more like yours, Bas, this is certainly puzzling.
Anyhow the situation is solved :-)
Regards,
Kaya
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