Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:38:10PM -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Tim Tebbit wrote:
> > Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >>
> >> You mean have tried to skip the installation of grub-pc and it has
> >> failed?
> >>
> >> Note that FreeBSD need grub2, so adding the entry manually will only
> >> work if you are using this version.
> >>
> >
> > Ahhh... I did not see that requirement in the install notes.. I'll get
> > grub2 and give it another go. Thanks for the tip.
> >
> > Yes, I tried to skip the installation of grub-pc thinking currently
> > installed grub could handle it fine.
>
>
> Okay, with grub2... still error..
>
> root (hd0,1)
> filesystem type unknown partition type 0x83
> Kernel /boot/loader
>
> Forgive my ignorance but '/boot/loader' should be replaced with a kernel
> shouldn't it? I have no idea what that might be. I couldn't find that
> documented anywhere.
Yes, this is what you should have in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (to be adapted):
insmod ufs2
set root=(hd0,1)
freebsd /boot/kfreebsd-7.2-1-amd64.gz
set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad0s1
set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
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