On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:54:47PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 07:54:22PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 07:29:00PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Recent versions of GRUB 2 can load the kernel directly. Something like > > > this I think: > > > > > > freebsd /boot/kernel > > > freebsd_loadenv /boot/devices.hints > > > set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad0s1 > > > > Anyone managed to get the Debian grub maintainance scripts working > > from inside GNU/kFreeBSD? > > > > My recent try (just a few weeks ago) failed badly because grub-probe > > (and therefore update-grub) expects harddisks to be block devices > > while they are character devices under (k)FreeBSD. > > Hi, > > This was recently fixed in upstream. According to Felix (CCed), grub-setup > still has trouble, though: > > grub-setup: error: cannot open `/dev/da0' in open_device()
I don't have time to test this right now, but for the reference, it seems that g_open() from libgeom needs to be used rather than plain open(). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org