From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 21 20:40:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6615B106566B for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:40:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@sloservers.com) Received: from mail.sloservers.com (vps.sloservers.com [204.109.61.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3929C8FC18 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.6] (port=18276 helo=thinking.kicks-ass.org) by mail.sloservers.com with smtp (Exim 4.76 #0 (EximConfig 2.5)) id 1SsgTG-000MTI-6A for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:40:15 -0400 Received: (qmail 46985 invoked by uid 98); 21 Jul 2012 13:40:13 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (HELO [192.168.1.102]) (192.168.1.102) (smtp-auth username rick@sloservers.com, mechanism plain) by thinking.kicks-ass.org (qpsmtpd/0.83) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:40:13 -0700 Message-ID: <500B13AA.5080505@sloservers.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:40:10 -0700 From: Rick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juergen Lock References: <20120721185813.GA4457@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20120721185813.GA4457@triton8.kn-bremen.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EximConfig: v2.5 on mail.sloservers.com (http://www.jcdigita.com/eximconfig) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.11.6 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rick@sloservers.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fix for grub 2.00/bzr kfreebsd to boot 9.1 kernels X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:40:18 -0000 Hi Juergen, My email address has changed so don't be alarmed if your CC bounces. :) An update of grub2 is long overdue, so I'll work on that right now. -Rick On 2012/07/21 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. Asked on #grub where phcoder > found the fix after I made him a test iso using grub-mkrescue: > > http://paste.debian.net/180121/ > > Applied that to grub 2.00 from here: > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.xz > > (built on a Linux debian slice with checkinstall), and that got > the 9.1 kernel booting. So maybe the sysutils/grub2 maintainer > (Cc'd) wants to update the port to 2.00 and add the patch in > files/? :) (It's still at 1.98 currently where the patch doesn't > apply.) > > The kfreebsd way to boot this affects is the same as in this > earlier post: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2011-March/011828.html > > (i.e. this is not chainloading bsd's loader but grub loading the > kernel and klds itself. I think this way to boot was originally > added by the debian kfreebsd guys, hence the command kfreebsd...) > > HTH, > Juergen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"