From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 22 02:10:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9139C1065670; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 02:10:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46BB38FC0C; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 02:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 40EB01E0073D; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:10:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q6M28sFO020579; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:08:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id q6M28soZ020578; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:08:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:08:54 +0200 To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20120722020854.GA20505@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20120721185813.GA4457@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <500B1D6D.5090306@FreeBSD.org> <20120722002128.GB14907@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <500B5AE6.8020301@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <500B5AE6.8020301@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: rick@lgarchitecture.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Juergen Lock Subject: Re: Fix for grub 2.00/bzr kfreebsd to boot 9.1 kernels X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 02:10:22 -0000 On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 06:44:06PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 07/21/2012 17:21, Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:21:49PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > >> [ Removed -current, not relevant to 9.x ] > >> > >> On 07/21/2012 11:58, Juergen Lock wrote: > >>> Hi! > >>> > >>> I'm in the process of testing 9.1 on the laptop where I use grub2 > >>> because I had to put bsd in an `extended' slice, and I found out > >>> grub2 won't boot the 9.1 kernel. > >> > >> Nothing will boot FreeBSD on an extended slice, I'm surprised it even > >> installed. > > > > I don't remember how I installed 9.0 back then, maybe it was manually, > > but yes grub boots it just fine, and with the fix also after updating > > to RELENG_9. > > > > zsh enceladus% uname -a > > FreeBSD enceladus.kn-bremen.de 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Jul 20 21:28:23 CEST 2012 nox@enceladus.kn-bremen.de:/usr/obj/d3t/d3t/home/nox/src91/src/sys/ENCELADUS amd64 > > zsh enceladus% df -k > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ada0s7a 8245660 6150304 1435704 81% / > > [...] > > Well I'm happy to be proven wrong. Do you have one big partition, or > were you able to partition it? And do you have more than one FreeBSD > installed? I have /usr too as well as /altroot and /altroot/usr where I tested head (and data partitions on a 3 TB esata disk that I have to remember to power down before booting Windows 7 or it messes up the gpt header on that disk...) Cheers, Juergen