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Date:      Tue, 24 Dec 2013 01:59:48 -0800
From:      Michael Dexter <editor@callfortesting.org>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Booting a disk image with GRUB in BHyve?
Message-ID:  <52B95B14.7000603@callfortesting.org>
In-Reply-To: <52B9271A.503@freebsd.org>
References:  <CAG=rPVc4NpPnPaQT8xNF7HgoMraqoybt0AGuX7woR-ZYnoxqVg@mail.gmail.com> <52B9271A.503@freebsd.org>

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On 12/23/13 10:18 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:
>> How can I boot something which uses GRUB bootloader in BHyve?
> 
>  There is a user-space port of grub2 that allows a number of Linux
> distros to boot (sysutils/grub2-bhyve). However, for Linux distros such
> as rhel/centos 6.* that use grub-1, it's somewhat of a manual process.

I have made some significant improvements to my "bhyve-script" at:

http://bhyve.org/bhyve-script.tar

It now automatically retrieves and installs Ubuntu and Debian plus
FreeNAS with one manual step and pfSense with a few manual steps.

It also supports nmdm, lpc and tmux consoles/multiplexing.

Michael



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