Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 13:08 +0100, Gyrd Thane Lange wrote:
> On 29.11.2012 05:50, Carl Johnson wrote:
> > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the
> >> bootloader install. Linux grub legacy until now is unable to boot BSD,
> >> because of "Error17: Cannot mount selected partition"
> >>
> >> spinymouse at q:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
> >> timeout   8
> >> default   0
> >> color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
> >>
> >> title FreeBSD
> >> root   (hd0,a)
> >> kernel /boot/loader
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> Linux only recognize the slice, but not what's inside it:
> >> spinymouse at q:~$ sudo fdisk -l
> >
> > You might want to try a chainloader boot from grub.  The following is a
> > chainloader rule that I have used, as well as a normal loader boot.  I
> > use the loader boot, but I also tested the chainloader boot.  You will
> > need a ufs2_stage1_5 file in your grub directory for a loader boot, and
> > linux grub might not have it available.
> >
> > title           FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) chainloader
> > root            (hd1,2)
> > chainloader     +1
> > boot
> >
> > title           FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) /boot/loader
> > root            (hd1,2,a)
> > kernel          /boot/loader
> > boot
> 
> In case you have not got it working yet, I can offer a glimmer of hope 
> by telling how I managed to multi boot Linux and FreeBSD on MBR logical 
> partitions.
> 
> By using the grub patch at:
> 
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=158362>
> ports/158362: sysutils/grub [patch] allow GRUB to boot FreeBSD from an 
> extended partition
> 
> You must rebuild and reinstall grub (from Linux I guess).
> 
> My install is fairly old and from the days when sysutils/grub at least 
> was installable from within FreeBSD i386. The patch itself does not 
> touch FreeBSD sources, only grub. So I expect it will build from any 
> OS/machine that can build grub.
> 
> When installed I can boot FreeBSD from an MBR logical partition like so:
> 
> title           FreeBSD CURRENT (amd64) (disk1, logical partition s11)
> root            (hd0,10,a)
> kernel          /boot/loader
> boot
> 
> Depending upon how recent version of FreeBSD you have installed you may 
> have to config the FreeBSD loader to find its root file system. 
> 10-CURRENT should be okay.
> 
> Best regards,
> Gyrd ^_^

Hi :)

I didn't work on my machine, but will continue today or tomorrow. FWIW I
told the PC-BSD installer not to install a bootloader, do I have to
install a FreeBSD loader now, or is it already installed?

On Debian users mailing list I got some replies with recommendations
too.

Thank you!
Ralf