Re: GRUB2 and GNU/kFreeBSD (was: Re: GNU/kFreeBSD into the Debian archive (aka we need your help))
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 07:54:22PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 07:29:00PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Recent versions of GRUB 2 can load the kernel directly. Something like
> > this I think:
> >
> > freebsd /boot/kernel
> > freebsd_loadenv /boot/devices.hints
> > set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad0s1
>
> Anyone managed to get the Debian grub maintainance scripts working
> from inside GNU/kFreeBSD?
>
> My recent try (just a few weeks ago) failed badly because grub-probe
> (and therefore update-grub) expects harddisks to be block devices
> while they are character devices under (k)FreeBSD.
Hi,
This was recently fixed in upstream. According to Felix (CCed), grub-setup
still has trouble, though:
grub-setup: error: cannot open `/dev/da0' in open_device()
perhaps it's as simple as device.map not having the right device names? Is
a different device node needed for raw device access?
--
Robert Millan
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