Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:29:16PM -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Still no luck.  Although this time the error was simply no such file,
> which leads me to believe I have the file name of the kernel wrong.
> 
> I no have included in /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> 
> ---8<---
> 
> }
> menuentry "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.2-1-i386" {
> 	insmod ufs2
>         set root=(hd0,1)
>         freebsd /boot/kfreebsd-7.2-1-i368.gz
>         set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad0s1
>         set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
> }

It should be i686 (or i486 on a pre pentium-computer) instead of i368 or
i386. Also if I understand correctly, your system is installed on sda2,
so, in that case it should probably be (hd0,2) and /dev/ad0s2.

 

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