> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 08:53:31PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Some updates:
> > I could see what happens if I try to boot the FreeBSD boot partition on the > > hard drive using the Super Grub Disk with chainloader. > > If that works, it would boot FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1, but I would see if it works. > > That failed (invalid signature). > You probably need to chainload a freebsd-boot partition, _if_ you > want to chainload at all. I was trying to chainload the freebsd-boot partition! But grub2 didn't like it. > > I could also try > > kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel > > That failed to boot the proper partition, went to the debugger (db>), > > whereupon all I could type was "reboot". > You didn't get a mountroot prompt? If you did you can try typing a > question mark and return, that should list possible partitions to mount > root from. If you didn't, or you don't want to do this manually you > need to set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ada0p1 from grub2, > or wherever your root partition is. I remember pressing a key, but then the system rushed past the mountroot prompt into the debugger prompt. > > Now can I safely install boot into the partition to be booted, as I did > > with NetBSD on USB stick? > > gpart -p /boot/boot -i 3 > > That would be for /dev/ada0p3, but I am afraid of damaging something. > That would need to be on a freebsd-boot partition, and you want > /boot/gptboot not /boot/boot. I believe bsdlabel can be used to install boot code to a partition, but believe that is not for GPT. I could try bsdlabel on a giant floppy image as I used installboot on a giant floppy image for NetBSD. > Tom > HTH, > Juergen Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
