From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 14 21:28:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AE9185 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:28:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6721@twc.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2463D2966 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:28:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [74.130.200.176] ([74.130.200.176:60064] helo=localhost) by cdptpa-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id D6/92-01315-ED16C525; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:27:59 +0000 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:27:58 +0000 Message-ID: From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BE Loader Menu (was Re: rcs) References: <60177810-8DC4-4EA3-8040-A834B79039D2@orthanc.ca> <52538EDC.2080001@freebsd.org> <52541202.3010707@mu.org> <20131008.170444.74714516.sthaug@nethelp.no> <52542BD4.5070706@FreeBSD.org> <52542E1D.9000000@mu.org> <52555D1C.8010407@freebsd.org> <52558577.5020401@allanjude.com> <52558779.2070203@pcbsd.org> <517D65A3D61F684FAE2B2EC2D2DA06C3@fisglobal.com> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D720FC4B2A3@LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com> <201310141554.r9EFsRIk065272@enceladus10.kn-bremen.de> X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.142:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Cc: Juergen Lock , "Teske, Devin" , Kris Moore X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:28:06 -0000 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@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY amd64 Tom