From: "Tom Oakes" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 2:16:38 PM
Subject: booting freebsd 9.1 with grub2 on usf drive
Hello,
I have a 2 disk computer. HD1 is divided into 4 partitions Partition1
contain freebsd 8.2. Partition 2 filled with garbage. partition is
extended and holds ubuntu. I am trying to get pcbsd work in partition 4.
I use GAG to boot the various Operating systems. GAG finds a Freebsd
loader for freebsd 8.2 and freebsd 9.1. Gag finds a grub2 loader for
ubuntu. This grub will also loads freebsd 8.2 but not 9.2. I can not
get PCBSD boot with GAG. My system boots from the HD1 MBR.
I do not want to try installing a pcbsd boot loader in either disk's MBR
until I can get all 3 systems to boot from my new install of usb grub2!
I can currently boot ubuntu and freebsd8.2 from usb grub, but have been
able to get freebsd 9.1 to boot. I haven't tried to get pcbsd to boot
from the usb grub yet.
Searching the web for direction find many suggestions but I have found
nothing that works. Many are version unknown.
Below is the usb grub 40_custom. As you can see from the commented out
lines, I have tried many different combinations of entered commands.
Do you have any suggestions?
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply
type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry "FreeBSD 8.2" {
insmod ufs2
set root='(hd1,msdos1)'
# search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 4c9511e4308fb60f
kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel
# kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints
# kfreebsd_module /boot/splash.bmp type=splash_image_data
set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad4s1a
}
menuentry "FreeBSD 9.1"{
# insmod chain
# insmod ufs2
set root='(hd0,1)'
# chainloader +1
# kfreebsd /boot/kernel
# set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad1s1a
# title Freebsd 9.1
#rootnoverify (hd0,1)
#root (hd0,a)
kernel /boot/kernel/kernel
END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
If you also have suggestions on how I try to boot the pcbsd OS, I would
appreciate them!
Thanks,
Tom Oakes
I found the problem
The DVD drive must be HD0, so the second hard drive turned out to be HD2.