Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:27:58 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>, Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> Subject: Re: BE Loader Menu (was Re: rcs) Message-ID: <D6.92.01315.ED16C525@cdptpa-oedge03> References: <60177810-8DC4-4EA3-8040-A834B79039D2@orthanc.ca> <52538EDC.2080001@freebsd.org> <52541202.3010707@mu.org> <20131008.170444.74714516.sthaug@nethelp.no> <52542BD4.5070706@FreeBSD.org> <52542E1D.9000000@mu.org> <CAOjFWZ4xq3fTQc_%2B7i68HVa3xO6-uXUPt=hAPnH5fv0z9D5WRQ@mail.gmail.com> <52555D1C.8010407@freebsd.org> <CAOjFWZ70-or1_873iOgeLMThqAJV_y0ZA0%2BfWhJYTwHygq=pYA@mail.gmail.com> <CAOjFWZ5bsrQ5TuT0W1yTK=T%2Bj4Q=oAPhE-CfN9z1Ydeg_5BF3g@mail.gmail.com> <52558577.5020401@allanjude.com> <52558779.2070203@pcbsd.org> <517D65A3D61F684FAE2B2EC2D2DA06C3@fisglobal.com> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D720FC4B2A3@LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com> <201310141554.r9EFsRIk065272@enceladus10.kn-bremen.de>
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from Juergen Lock:
> If you mean it loads the kernel but then crashes instead of booting it
> then your grub2 version is missing this fix:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699002
> >I used Super Grub2 Disk image on the System Rescue CD written to USB stick.
> A super grub disk beta version with the mentioned fix is here:
> https://forja.cenatic.es/frs/?group_id=204
> (2.00s1b6, it also has fixed autodetection of FreeBSD installs.)
I did the download, now will copy it to the System Rescue CD USB stick and make the appropriate entry in syslinux.cfg .
I don't think the Super Grub2 Disk was able to load the kernel.
It led to a prompt like what I get when I escape from the boot menu to loader prompt.
My image resulting from mkrescue in sysutils/grub2 built from FreeBSD ports worked on FreeBSD 10-head, now 10-stable.
But I got the same failure on FreeBSD 9.2.
I copied /boot/kernel/kernel from the hard-drive installation to /boot/kernel/kernel92 on the USB-stick installation.
Then I was able to boot the USB stick, escape to loader prompt, then
unload
boot /boot/kernel/kernel92 -a -s
(or without -s for regular boot, but I was upgrading from 9.2-prerelease).
Now uname -a shows
FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-STABLE FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #19 r256095M: Tue Oct 8 08:57:11 UTC 2013 root@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY amd64
Tom
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