Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:37:48 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Noel Hunt <noel.hunt@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.0, booting with grub (grub2) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407161533550.62685@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGfO01wAqgv2srhaOuQYTdqV1F8nXFqRMGZ6Z2c9HUG%2BVpk8zw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGfO01wAqgv2srhaOuQYTdqV1F8nXFqRMGZ6Z2c9HUG%2BVpk8zw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, Noel Hunt wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 10.0/Solaris 11.1 dual-boot machine. Solaris was
> installed after FreeBSD and since it uses grub by default I am using
> that to boot. Currently I am just invoking /boot/loader from grub.cfg
> in Solaris, but I would like to boot directly. This just doesn't work.
>
> I have installed grub2 on FreeBSD via ports, and run `grub-mkconfig'
> to get some entries for grub.cfg which I have simply applied to the
> Solaris installation (via the custom.cfg script).
>
> But, these entries just don't work. I have tried running each command
> by hand at the grub CLI with debugging but after all the debug output
> is printed the screen goes black and the machine reverts to the
> normal power-on screen, and the boot selection process starts all
> over again.
>
> This is the entry:
>
> menuentry 'FreeBSD, with kFreeBSD kernel' {
> insmod part_gpt
> insmod ufs2
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 53a87fa1e9b6256d
> echo 'Loading kernel of FreeBSD kernel ...'
> kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel
> kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints
> kfreebsd_module_elf /boot/kernel/ufs.ko
> set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ufsid/53a87fa1e9b6256d
> set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
> }
I'm not sure what you mean about "/boot/loader from grub.cfg in
Solaris". All I've done is:
menuentry "FreeBSD" {
set root="(hd0,gpt3)" # GPT partition 3
kfreebsd /boot/loader
}
The first partition was the Grub2 bootcode, the second partition was
Linux, the third FreeBSD.
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