Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:40:10 -0700 From: Rick <rick@sloservers.com> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fix for grub 2.00/bzr kfreebsd to boot 9.1 kernels Message-ID: <500B13AA.5080505@sloservers.com> In-Reply-To: <20120721185813.GA4457@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20120721185813.GA4457@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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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"
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