Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:25:23 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd bootloader / boot0cfg and multiple disks? Message-ID: <AANLkTin44m7TuZSC%2B6v89s_zqdt5t9uSNcwiyhEpRfot@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101220060718.GA3103@alucard.int.rhavenn.net> References: <20101220060718.GA3103@alucard.int.rhavenn.net>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> wrote: > I'm trying to get the FreeBSD boot loader to to boot off multiple > disks, but I can't seem to get it to see my 3rd disk. > > FreeBSD 8.2-PRE amd64; stock kernel with sound card, ahci and PF added > > disk layout: > ada0: freebsd main install (/, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home, swap) > ada1: freebsd data disk > ada2: win7 with ada2s1 being the "boot" 100MB, ada2s2 and ada2s3 > being partitions > > How can I get boot0cfg to try and boot the 3rd disk, ada2s1? I added the > 3rd > disk after already having the first 2 setup and installed. Normally, > I install Windows first and boot0cfg picks it up fine, but not this > time :) > > The man page shows how to install a boot MBR on a disk and to > reference the slices, but I can't seem to see how to reference a 2nd > or 3rd disk. The default install picks up the 2nd disk (FreeBSD > data), but obviously can't boot from that. So, it does seem to be > able to redirect to other disks. > > I tried doing a boot0cfg -Bv -s 1 ada2, but that seems to just > install a MBR on ada2 and it never gets picked up on ada0 boot menu. > > grub isn't supported on amd64 and grub2 seems to be all "wizards" > and secondary "config" files :( > > Henrik, Did you mark ada0(s1) as bootable? Sounds like you might have missed that and marked the wrong disk/slice as bootable.
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