Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:43:11 +0000 From: nox@FreeBSD.ORG (Juergen Lock) To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock <nox@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2 Message-ID: <20130825204311.GA61785@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <339077.27046.bm@smtp105.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <339077.27046.bm@smtp105.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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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 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. > 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. > Tom > HTH, Juergen
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