Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:22:58 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP server for install link broken? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201271212220.31610@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4F22F65A.1070705@gmail.com> References: <4F22CC78.9020002@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201270913081.28751@wonkity.com> <4F22F65A.1070705@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Kaya Saman wrote: > On 01/27/2012 04:16 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Kaya Saman wrote: >> >>> am currently trying to install FreeBSD 9 on my Lenovo X220 and noticed >>> that the link on this page in the FreeBSD Handbook is broken: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html >> >> See the header at the top of that page. There is a new chapter for >> installing 9.0 and later. The equivalent section is >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html > > Oh ok..... > > Anyway as I'm familiar with BSD 8.x I did the install without reading!! > > My issue was really to find the .img file for USB booting. > > > All done now but can't seem to get Fedora 16's GRUB to boot BSD 9.0.... I > guess it's time to consult the documentation after all; even though > Google'ing provided results that didn't yield answers as the Linux GRUB can't > find the partition/slice combo??? The default install of FreeBSD 9 uses GPT, so there are no slices or FreeBSD (bsdlabel) partitions. Instead of ad0s1a, it would just be ada0p2. Don't know what Linux calls these partitions, though. > Tried chainloading but that didn't work either probably as no boot-loader got > loaded into the PBR by default. If you want multiboot on a GPT drive, grub2 seems to be the solution. (But I haven't tested it.)
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