From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 29 04:53:59 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCB351D for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:53:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from redcondor1.peak.org (redcondor1.peak.org [69.59.192.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8FF8FC08 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmail-mta02.peak.org ([207.55.16.112]) by redcondor1.peak.org ({34b3fc79-8c76-4cfb-a4c0-c941747cf3b5}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20121129045032822 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:50:32 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from birch.localnet (unknown [207.55.106.48]) by zmail-mta02.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 91E7C4894E7 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:50:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.localnet (oak.localnet [192.168.193.34]) by birch.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14037556E8 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:50:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.localnet (localhost.localnet [127.0.0.1]) by oak.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF27CF83 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:50:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from carlj@localhost) by oak.localnet (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id qAT4oUCY097819; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:50:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) X-Authentication-Warning: oak.localnet: carlj set sender to carlj@peak.org using -f From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved] References: <1353795280.2662.12.camel@q> <20121124233520.7ad4b4be.freebsd@edvax.de> <1353798889.2662.46.camel@q> <20121125002717.11a61c8d.freebsd@edvax.de> <1353807268.2773.16.camel@q> <20121125131908.671f6d31.freebsd@edvax.de> <1353846552.2508.23.camel@q> <1353877782.2508.225.camel@q> <1354029192.2827.11.camel@q> <1354046327.2528.15.camel@q> <1354086404.2528.89.camel@q> <1354119648.3152.4.camel@q> <1354156932.2393.22.camel@q> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:50:30 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1354156932.2393.22.camel@q> (Ralf Mardorf's message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:42:12 +0100") Message-ID: <87fw3tj9m1.fsf@oak.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MAG-OUTBOUND: peakinternet.redcondor.net@207.55.16/22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:53:59 -0000 Ralf Mardorf writes: > Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the > bootloader install. Linux grub legacy until now is unable to boot BSD, > because of "Error17: Cannot mount selected partition" > > spinymouse@q:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst > timeout 8 > default 0 > color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue > > title FreeBSD > root (hd0,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > [snip] > > Linux only recognize the slice, but not what's inside it: > spinymouse@q:~$ sudo fdisk -l You might want to try a chainloader boot from grub. The following is a chainloader rule that I have used, as well as a normal loader boot. I use the loader boot, but I also tested the chainloader boot. You will need a ufs2_stage1_5 file in your grub directory for a loader boot, and linux grub might not have it available. title FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) chainloader root (hd1,2) chainloader +1 boot title FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) /boot/loader root (hd1,2,a) kernel /boot/loader boot -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org