is this spinning disk sequence you described actually just these 4 ascii characters being displayed such they appear spinning?
ie -\|/- this is the freebsd kernel booting. seems strange that you would install the freebsd kernel source code? i dont think the intention is to be able to boot your deb system in to either a freebsd or linux kernel. but rather that the whole debian install is built to run with the freebsd kernel rather than the linux kernel. i would be impressed if the userspace was kernel independent and a binary level :) Dean On 4/7/2010, "Adam Bogacki" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, I have a dual-boot system running an xubuntu pkg on WattOS ubuntu >(zeno), and sid/squeeze debian (Tui). > >For some time I used Tui as my main working system and zeno as a backup. > >One day 'apt-cache search' threw up package 'kfreebsd-source-7.0', >described as >"code for the FreeBSD 7.0 kernel with debian patches". I assumed this meant >it was debian-friendly, and apt-installed it. > >The next reboot, however, hung at the stage when a circular cursor >appeared on >a black screen. The cursor was moveable and consisted of a turning disk, >but the >boot process never went further. > >I booted into zeno (/dev/sa1) and mounted the file system (/dev/sdb1) >and the >home directory (/dev/sdb9) of Tui, including them in zeno's /etc/fstab >for future use. > >I have been able to copy docs I am working on .. and have come to >appreciate WattOS's >power saving features and crisp performance on a P4 with 2Gb RAM. > >But I have not been able to boot into Tui. > >Realising that BSD uses ZFS, I unmounted /dev/sdb1 and ran > >sudo e2fsck -c /dev/sdb1 > >getting > >a...@zeno:~$ sudo e2fsck -c /dev/sdb1 >e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) >Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): >done >/dev/sdb1: Updating bad block inode. >Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes >Pass 2: Checking directory structure >Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity >Pass 4: Checking reference counts >Pass 5: Checking group summary information > >/dev/sdb1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** >/dev/sdb1: 11143/86344 files (7.7% non-contiguous), 239977/345364 blocks > >.. and the same on /dev/sdb9. > >My question is, have I borked the file structure on Tui ? What am I >missing here ? > >Cheers, > >Adam Bogacki, > >[email protected] > > >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
