On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:05 AM, peeter (must) wrote: >>>> Thanks again, partial success so far: could get refit working but >>>> apparently refit does not boot dfly, or at least not yet. >>>> >>>> I made two partitions for dfly as described in the README on the live >>>> cd, a ufs partition for /boot and hammer partition for the rest. refit >>>> recognizes the boot partition as a FreeBSD one and when I choose to >>>> boot it in the refit many then I get a blank screen and then "No >>>> bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". Then the >>>> computer hangs. >>> >>> 2 GPT partitions or 2 slices in the dragonfly partition? >>> >>>> I thought it might be since refit isn't familiar with 64bit disklablel >>>> but using disklabel32 gives the same result. >>>> >>>> I tried to gptsync the partition tables but refit refuses; refit sees >>>> dfly partitions as "Unknown" and refuses to do anything with them. I >>>> thought there might be a way to force gptsync but refit shell hasn't >>>> got gptsync. >>> >>> Did you use a GPT aware partitioning tool? >>> (g)parted or cgdisk on Linux livecds (sysresccd etc.) or Apple's Disk Util. >> >> >> 2 GPT partitions as described in "Boot setup" >> >> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=gpt§ion=8 >> >> However, this might be outdated. As far as I understand, gpt was >> ported from freebsd; freebsd has moved on to gpart now. refit gptsync >> complained about gpt partitions. When I installed freebsd and used >> gpart, then refit was satsified. >> >> I tried installing freebsd on an external usb stick. And succeeded: so >> this is the first time I've succeeded in getting a BSD running on this >> 13" MBPro! Booting sequence is then: >> >> MacEFI --> refit --> fbsd >> >> It turns out fbsd has two exclusive types of partioning schemes. The >> old one, bsd slices; and gpt. They are exclusive: you can't disklabel >> gpt slices. And you should created one gpt slice for each partition >> you want, so eg >> >> /dev/ada0p1 /boot >> /dev/ada0p2 swap >> /dev/ada0p3 / >> >> and so on, as many as you like. dfly man 8 gpt is not quite consistent >> with this. dfly disklabels a gpt slice. Fbsd gpt booting scheme >> involves a small 64k partition that consists of a loader, >> /boot/gptboot, see >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpart&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html >> >> However, success did not last long; at the next boot I got "Missing >> operating system" -- a different error message from the last time. I >> did not touch any freebsd partitions, and have no clue what happened. >> I never regained booting to that system. >> >> Installed fbsd on the harddisk and could gptsync and everything. But >> refit boot leads to "Missing operating system". > > That usually happens if something changed in the partition table > and it was not synced for BIOS mode boot to work. > > Maybe try with a 1MB BIOS BOOT partition prior to the DragonFly partitions?
I'll try that next! grub2 failed. Peeter --
