Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:10:27 +0000 From: nox@FreeBSD.ORG (Juergen Lock) To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2 Message-ID: <20130819221027.GA80320@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <DB.6C.18468.84272125@hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com> References: <DB.6C.18468.84272125@hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com>
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[sending this from hub since bellsouth.net doesn't seem to like my `normal' mailserver...] On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:30:16PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I can repeat (again) what uname -a shows: > > > FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #17 r254196: Sun Aug 11 00:36:49 UTC 2013 root@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY amd64 > > > Hello, > > > can you try to install this loader? > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/loader > > > WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov > > I just downloaded it, saving as loaderae, using your email username and initials as a suffix. > > I assume loader works under a different name? > > I can use "kfreebsd/loaderae" instead of "kfreebsd /boot/loader", and loaderae will be preserved over the next update from source. > > Then I will want to test the new /boot/loader which might possibly work right with kfreebsd. > > Or maybe I will have a newer kfreebsd. > ..so you probably never saw my post about the updated super grub disk iso: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-August/074711.html I.e. they fixed the kfreebsd misspelling and the grub 2.00 bug that prevented it from booting a 9.1+ kernel directly, so the autodetection now has better chances of working. (They even added loader to the autodetection so you can also `e'dit that entry and change loader to loaderae to test this.) HTH, :) Juergen
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