Re: How to boot PC-BSD from Debian (was: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance)
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:27:07 -0700, Weaver wrote:
>> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>>>>> so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the
>>>>> prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer.
>
> I had some trouble with this myself and tried all sorts of things. Grub2
> wouldn't find it.
You may have missed something because GRUB2 is more than capable of
booting it.
> I tried GAG:
>
> http://gag.sourceforge.net/
>
> ...which is very good and detects everything, but would only boot
> PC-BSD.
Maybe because some sort of incompatibility between GAG and GRUB2.
> The only thing I haven't tried is something somebody suggested had
> worked for them on another forum, and that was to downgrade to
> Grub-Legacy. Apparently that works.
> This I haven't tried, so I give no guarantee. Regards,
That can be seen as a workaround but remember that GRUB Legacy is not
being developed anymore. Using GRUB2 (or another supported bootloader)
should be the way to go.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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