From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 23 22:17:17 2012 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68F9335; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:17:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCF48FC14; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:17:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 3C3D11E000A6; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:17:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qANMEhDQ030304; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:14:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id qANMEh7x030303; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:14:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:14:43 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Message-Id: <201211232214.qANMEh7x030303@triton8.kn-bremen.de> To: julian@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RME audio card user new to FreeBSD X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.multimedia In-Reply-To: <50AFD823.2050203@freebsd.org> References: <50AFD823.2050203@freebsd.org> Organization: Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions <freebsd-multimedia.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-multimedia>, <mailto:freebsd-multimedia-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-multimedia-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia>, <mailto:freebsd-multimedia-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:17:18 -0000 In article <50AFD823.2050203@freebsd.org> you write: >On 11/23/12 6:31 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 13:16 +0000, Chris Rees wrote: >>> Well, you can't just install onto a Linux partition, is that what you >>> mean? >> Hi Chris :) >> >> my machine is a Linux only multi-boot PC, among others I've got Arch >> Linux and Ubuntu installed. There are several free logical partitions on >> my 2 HDDs (no RAID, no LVM), but only one primary partition on each >> drive. Both primary partitions aren't empty. The primary partition of >> the first drive contains backups only, unfortunately non of the free >> logical drives is large enough to move the data. >> >> If needed I'll shrink one logical and increase another logical partition >> and than move the data from the primary partition to this logical one. >> This will result in /dev/sda1 (as Linux does call it) free for FreeBSD, >> but dose cause a lot of work. >> >> I wonder what bootloader to use to boot into FreeBSD and the different >> Linux kernels and what file system to use for this partition. > >Freebsd can only boo from a primary partition, ut yu say that you have >1/ space and 2/ only one primary partition. >this means that probably you have room in the partition map to add >another primary partition and point it at the space that is currently >taken up by one of your logical (non primary) partitions. > >send a copy of the output of 'fdisk.... <p>' > >in other words enter fdisk /dev/sda and then type 'p' to print >out the >current partition map. >You may just be able to rename them while leaving them the same on the >drive. > >Julian Btw there is another solution to this problem: while loader(8) cannot boot from 'extended' slices, grub2 actually can if you tell it to load kernel and klds itself instead of chainloading loader. Only there is a bug preventing 9.1/amd64 and later kernels from starting so you either need to add a patch to grub 2.00 or use grub bzr. The patch I mirrored here: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/grub2-paste_180121.patch Here is an example to have grub2 load kernel and klds itself: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2011-March/011828.html (use 'set root=(hd0,5)' etc instead of 'set root=(hd0,1)' for an extended slice.) PR to update the sysutils/grub2 port to 2.00 + bugfix: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/170417 (tho I atually have debian Linux on that box too and just installed grub 2.00 manually there with the patch.) HTH, :) Juergen