Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 06:49:08 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grub2, FreeBSD, GPT References: <20180508055027.GA8745@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>
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from Victor Sudakov:
> Have you ever tried to boot FreeBSD from a GPT partition with grub2 (no UEFI)?
> In my test layout, /dev/ada0p1 is the freebsd-boot partition and
> /dev/ada0p2 is the freebsd-ufs partition. However grub2 says "invalid
> signature" about both of them:
> grub> set root=(hd0,gpt1)
> grub> chainloader +1
> error: invalid signature
> grub> set root=(hd0,gpt2)
> grub> chainloader +1
> error: invalid signature
> grub>
I think I tried something like that, but it didn't work.
What works, using the SystemRescue CD written to USB stick, is
(type c to go to command line)
set root=(hd1,gpt11) (or whatever the actual partition number is)
kfreebsd /boot/loader
boot
Tom
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