Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 16:34:27 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grub2, FreeBSD, GPT Message-ID: <20180508093427.GA21489@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> In-Reply-To: <auto-000040007407@relay2.tomsk.ru> References: <20180508055027.GA8745@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <auto-000040007407@relay2.tomsk.ru>
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Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > Have you ever tried to boot FreeBSD from a GPT partition with grub2 (no UEFI)? > > > In my test layout, /dev/ada0p1 is the freebsd-boot partition and > > /dev/ada0p2 is the freebsd-ufs partition. However grub2 says "invalid > > signature" about both of them: > > > grub> set root=(hd0,gpt1) > > grub> chainloader +1 > > error: invalid signature > > grub> set root=(hd0,gpt2) > > grub> chainloader +1 > > error: invalid signature > > grub> > > I think I tried something like that, but it didn't work. > > What works, using the SystemRescue CD written to USB stick, is > > (type c to go to command line) > > set root=(hd1,gpt11) (or whatever the actual partition number is) > kfreebsd /boot/loader > boot Thank you, this worked for me. However, FreeBSD's own grub2 (from ports) seems buggy. I've just submitted a bug report: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228062 -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859
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