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Date:      Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:38:14 +0000
From:      "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6727@bellsouth.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Unable to installworld after successful buildworld and buildkernel
Message-ID:  <28.45.16944.64B74525@cdptpa-oedge02>
References:  <3F.9A.16944.166A3525@cdptpa-oedge02> <20131008141501.GA69028@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>

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> To cross install FreeBSD on a system without the required users/groups
> you must either install them on the base system so that install and
> mtree can use them or use the -DDB_FROM_SRC option when running the
> installworld/installkernel/distribution targets.

-- Brooks

That worked for installworld, was apparently not needed subsequently for installkernel.

But where is DB_FROM_SRC documented?  I never saw it anywhere.  UPDATING file needs to be updated for installing FreeBSD on a partition where there is no OS installed.

I haven't booted yet, will try several ways including grub2, and not including grub2.

I installed sysutils/grub2 from FreeBSD ports, also sysutils/xorriso, necessary to run mkrescue.

Tom



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