BE Loader Menu (was Re: rcs)

[Thomas Mueller]

from Juergen Lock:

> If you mean it loads the kernel but then crashes instead of booting it
> then your grub2 version is missing this fix:
        
>         http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699002
        
> >I used Super Grub2 Disk image on the System Rescue CD written to USB stick.

>  A super grub disk beta version with the mentioned fix is here:

>         https://forja.cenatic.es/frs/?group_id=204
        
> (2.00s1b6, it also has fixed autodetection of FreeBSD installs.)

I did the download, now will copy it to the System Rescue CD USB stick and make the appropriate entry in syslinux.cfg .

I don't think the Super Grub2 Disk was able to load the kernel.

It led to a prompt like what I get when I escape from the boot menu to loader prompt.

My image resulting from mkrescue in sysutils/grub2 built from FreeBSD ports worked on FreeBSD 10-head, now 10-stable.

But I got the same failure on FreeBSD 9.2.

I copied /boot/kernel/kernel from the hard-drive installation to /boot/kernel/kernel92 on the USB-stick installation.

Then I was able to boot the USB stick, escape to loader prompt, then

unload
boot /boot/kernel/kernel92 -a -s

(or without -s for regular boot, but I was upgrading from 9.2-prerelease).

Now uname -a shows

FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-STABLE FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #19 r256095M: Tue Oct  8 08:57:11 UTC 2013     root at amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY  amd64

Tom