Fix for grub 2.00/bzr kfreebsd to boot 9.1 kernels

[Rick]

Hi Juergen,

My email address has changed so don't be alarmed if your CC bounces.  :)
An update of grub2 is long overdue, so I'll work on that right now.

-Rick

On 2012/07/21 11:58, Juergen Lock wrote:
> Hi!
>
>  I'm in the process of testing 9.1 on the laptop where I use grub2
> because I had to put bsd in an `extended' slice, and I found out
> grub2 won't boot the 9.1 kernel.  Asked on #grub where phcoder
> found the fix after I made him a test iso using grub-mkrescue:
>
> 	http://paste.debian.net/180121/
>
> Applied that to grub 2.00 from here:
>
> 	http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.xz
>
> (built on a Linux debian slice with checkinstall), and that got
> the 9.1 kernel booting.  So maybe the sysutils/grub2 maintainer
> (Cc'd) wants to update the port to 2.00 and add the patch in
> files/? :)  (It's still at 1.98 currently where the patch doesn't
> apply.)
>
>  The kfreebsd way to boot this affects is the same as in this
> earlier post:
>
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2011-March/011828.html
>
> (i.e. this is not chainloading bsd's loader but grub loading the
> kernel and klds itself.  I think this way to boot was originally
> added by the debian kfreebsd guys, hence the command kfreebsd...)
>
>  HTH,
> 	Juergen
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