On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 03:35:06PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 08:53:31PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Some updates:
I could see what happens if I try to boot the FreeBSD boot partition on
the hard drive using the Super Grub Disk with chainloader.
If
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 08:53:31PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Some updates:
I could see what happens if I try to boot the FreeBSD boot partition on the
hard drive using the Super Grub Disk with chainloader.
If that works, it would boot FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1, but I would see if it works.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 08:53:31PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Some updates:
I could see what happens if I try to boot the FreeBSD boot partition on the
hard drive using the Super Grub Disk with chainloader.
If that works, it would boot FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1, but I would see if it works.
Some updates:
I could see what happens if I try to boot the FreeBSD boot partition on the
hard drive using the Super Grub Disk with chainloader.
If that works, it would boot FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1, but I would see if it works.
That failed (invalid signature).
I could also try
kfreebsd
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:41:06AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Not sure about a physical cd but booting an iso should be possible
using either memdisk from grub2 like in the posting I linked,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549847page=13p=10818457#post10818457
I could see what happens if I try to boot the FreeBSD boot partition on the
hard drive using the Super Grub Disk with chainloader.
If that works, it would boot FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1, but I would see if it works.
I could also try
kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel
On my hard-drive installation, I have a
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:54:44PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:
This is what /cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.cfg shows for Super Grub2 Disk entry:
LABEL grubdisk
MENU LABEL SGD: Super Grub2 Disk
kernel memdisk
append initrd=/bootdisk/grubdisk.img floppy raw
This is from the latest SysRescCD
Not sure about a physical cd but booting an iso should be possible
using either memdisk from grub2 like in the posting I linked,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549847page=13p=10818457#post10818457
_or_ also using grub2's own loopback command like
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 01:59:27AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote:
..so you probably never saw my post about the updated super grub disk iso:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-August/074711.html
I.e. they fixed the kfreebsd misspelling and the grub 2.00 bug
This is what /cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.cfg shows for Super Grub2 Disk entry:
LABEL grubdisk
MENU LABEL SGD: Super Grub2 Disk
kernel memdisk
append initrd=/bootdisk/grubdisk.img floppy raw
This is from the latest SysRescCD beta.
Now I wonder how or if one can access a CD or DVD from GRUB2.
GRUB2
On 19.08.2013 05:40, Thomas Mueller wrote:
cd devices:
disk devices:
disk0 BIOS drive A:
disk0s1: Unknown
disk1: BIOS drive C:
disk2: BIOS drive D:
disk2p1: FreeBSD boot
disk2p2: FreeBSD UFS
disk2p3: FreeBSD swap
disk3: BIOS drive E:
I can repeat (again) what uname -a shows:
FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #17 r254196: Sun Aug 11
00:36:49 UTC 2013 root@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY amd64
Hello,
can you try to install this loader?
http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/loader
[sending this from hub since bellsouth.net doesn't seem to like my
`normal' mailserver...]
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:30:16PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I can repeat (again) what uname -a shows:
FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #17 r254196: Sun Aug 11
00:36:49 UTC
..so you probably never saw my post about the updated super grub disk iso:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-August/074711.html
I.e. they fixed the kfreebsd misspelling and the grub 2.00 bug that
prevented it from booting a 9.1+ kernel directly, so the
I can repeat (again) what uname -a shows:
FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #17 r254196: Sun Aug 11
00:36:49 UTC 2013 root@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY amd64
Hello,
can you try to install this loader?
http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/loader
On 20.08.2013 06:58, Thomas Mueller wrote:
was taken to a loader prompt where I could not access any files on
the hard disk.
Was the output of lsdev command the same or something changed?
So again I had to reboot, this time from the USB stick and at the
loader prompt typed set boot_askname
On 20.08.2013 06:58, Thomas Mueller wrote:
was taken to a loader prompt where I could not access any files on
the hard disk.
Was the output of lsdev command the same or something changed?
So again I had to reboot, this time from the USB stick and at the
loader prompt typed set
I finally tried again to track down that booting problem with FreeBSD via Super
Grub Disk with kfreebsd.
I also tried, unsuccessfully, the menu choice Detect any operating system.
That failed for failure to find commands freebsd and frebsd-loadenv.
In the latter command, frebsd-loadenv was
But as I said, I don't have a digital camera.
In any case, sending a graphic image of what ought to be a small text file
is very clumsy and inefficient.
There ought to be a way to capture loader-command output to a file.
Question is how to do that at the loader level.
On 14.08.2013 07:22, Thomas Mueller wrote:
How do I make a photo when I don't have a digital camera?
If I had a digital camera, how would I convert the picture to text?
You can attach images to email, or just share somewhere,
e.g. http://imm.io
I looked at man gpart and didn't see list in
On 14.08.2013 07:22, Thomas Mueller wrote:
How do I make a photo when I don't have a digital camera?
If I had a digital camera, how would I convert the picture to text?
You can attach images to email, or just share somewhere,
e.g. http://imm.io
I looked at man gpart and didn't
On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:40 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
On 14.08.2013 07:22, Thomas Mueller wrote:
How do I make a photo when I don't have a digital camera?
If I had a digital camera, how would I convert the picture to text?
You can attach images to email, or just share somewhere,
e.g.
On 12.08.2013 19:39, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I still wonder why Super Grub Disk kfreebsd worked until recently.
I figure something must have changed in FreeBSD loader or kernel
structure since the Super Grub Disk didn't change in that time.
For currdev, apparently the big hard drive is just
On 12.08.2013 19:39, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I still wonder why Super Grub Disk kfreebsd worked until recently.
I figure something must have changed in FreeBSD loader or kernel
structure since the Super Grub Disk didn't change in that time.
For currdev, apparently the big hard drive is
On 14.08.2013 05:41, Thomas Mueller wrote:
On 12.08.2013 19:39, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I still wonder why Super Grub Disk kfreebsd worked until
recently.
I figure something must have changed in FreeBSD loader or kernel
structure since the Super Grub Disk didn't change in that time.
For
I can provide the gpart list from booted system, but how do I capture
lsdev output without copying by pencil and paper?
You can just make a photo.
I looked in man loader and man loader.conf.
I subsequently added some partitions (6,7,12,13,14) for Linux
purposes, but
Hmm I just tested super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.00s1-beta5.iso from
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/supergrub2diskdownload/
if it can boot FreeBSD-9.2-RC1-amd64-memstick.img in qemu and I
had to fix kfreebsd spelled as freebsd and kfreebsd_loadenv
spelled as
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:39:45PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Hmm I just tested super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.00s1-beta5.iso from
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/supergrub2diskdownload/
if it can boot FreeBSD-9.2-RC1-amd64-memstick.img in qemu and I
had to fix
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:05:11PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:39:45PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Hmm I just tested super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.00s1-beta5.iso from
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/supergrub2diskdownload/
if it can
Has there been a change in loader or kernel format recently?
Through FreeBSD 9.1 postrelease, I was able to boot with grub2 (Super Grub
Disk) on the System Rescue CD (sysresccd.org) by
set root=(hd0,gpt3)
insmod ufs2
kfreebsd /boot/loader
boot
but that no longer works.
That was the method
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 05:31:10PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Has there been a change in loader or kernel format recently?
Through FreeBSD 9.1 postrelease, I was able to boot with grub2 (Super Grub
Disk) on the System Rescue CD (sysresccd.org) by
set root=(hd0,gpt3)
insmod ufs2
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