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Wandersee" , Polytropon Cc: "Kevin P. Neal" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-9c115fcf Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 21:26:16 +0100 Subject: Re: UFS installation correct ? In-Reply-To: <861swjx6mv.fsf@WorkBox.homestead.org> References: <1483454858.4190708.835937993.300F2713@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20170103160657.GB43153@neutralgood.org> <20170103203023.b2396c95.freebsd@edvax.de> <861swjx6mv.fsf@WorkBox.homestead.org> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:26:17 -0000 Dear Sir with great chance you have a right So now that we've made it this far, can we please just kill this > "thread" already? I From author experience (to date) with very great chance freebsd is not for author Wish good mood -- swjatoslaw gerus milstar2@eml.cc On Tue, Jan 3, 2017, at 08:53 PM, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: > > Polytropon writes: > > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 11:06:57 -0500, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:47:38PM +0100, swjatoslaw gerus wrote: > >> > If the installation is complete, select [ Reboot ] to reboot the > >> > computer and start the new FreeBSD system. Do not forget to remove the > >> > FreeBSD install media or the computer may boot from it again. > >> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-post.html > >> > > >> > Author pressed button reboot .shutdown (error ? ) ,sandisk out > >> > ,poweron > >> > but can see only linux grub ad can start linux > >> > >> I doubt the FreeBSD installer knows how to adjust grub to know about the > >> new FreeBSD install. You'll need to check the grub documentation to see > >> how to do that -- I've never used grub. > > > > GRUB has an easy to use setup tool which can be run from > > the existing Linux installation. Here you can add an entry > > for FreeBSD. You are right that GRUB doesn't automatically > > detect a new FreeBSD installation, but it can be configured > > to boot /dev/sda1, which is where FreeBSD's / partition > > should be should have been installed to. Sadly, the author > > did not provide any information which partitioning scheme > > (I assume MBR), which partition sizes, and which file system > > he did select during installation, so it's more or less > > guesswork. Due to Linux's fdisk program not understanding > > FreeBSD partitioning layouts properly, the presented output > > doesn't help much. > > > > However, a look at the GRUB configuration tool, accessible > > from Linux, should be of significant help. > > So now that we've made it this far, can we please just kill this > "thread" already? I count 91 messages to and from this individual over > the course of a week, forwarded and CC'd all over the place, with topics > changing a half-dozen times a day (some of which are apparently not > related to FreeBSD). Now that the OP may have finally made it through > the FreeBSD installation, I see no reason to continue. It took a mere > three or four messages for this to turn into an barely comprehensible > mess with 25-word subject lines and frequently changing topics, and it's > reached the point where the OP has asked for help with each individual > option offered by the installer. Honestly, I don't see any reason to > think the requests for spoon-feeding will end at this point. > > I get that the OP is unfamiliar with FreeBSD and isn't fluent in > English, but from what I can gather the language barrier probably is not > the primary problem here, and I'm tired of sorting through this stuff > every day. > > -- > :: Brandon J. Wandersee > :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com > :: -------------------------------------------------- > :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' > :: --- Dieter Rams ---------------------------------- -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service