Fix for grub 2.00/bzr kfreebsd to boot 9.1 kernels

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 22 01:44:08 UTC 2012


On 07/21/2012 17:21, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:21:49PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> [ Removed -current, not relevant to 9.x ]
>>
>> On 07/21/2012 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. 
>>
>> Nothing will boot FreeBSD on an extended slice, I'm surprised it even
>> installed.
> 
> I don't remember how I installed 9.0 back then, maybe it was manually,
> but yes grub boots it just fine, and with the fix also after updating
> to RELENG_9.
> 
> zsh enceladus% uname -a
> FreeBSD enceladus.kn-bremen.de 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Jul 20 21:28:23 CEST 2012     nox at enceladus.kn-bremen.de:/usr/obj/d3t/d3t/home/nox/src91/src/sys/ENCELADUS  amd64
> zsh enceladus% df -k
> Filesystem   1024-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ada0s7a     8245660  6150304   1435704    81%    /
> [...]

Well I'm happy to be proven wrong. Do you have one big partition, or
were you able to partition it? And do you have more than one FreeBSD
installed?

Doug

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