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 suggested in $PORTSDIR/sysutils/grub2/pkg-message I just source-upgraded from 9.2-BETA2 to what is now called 9.2-PRERELEASE 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 Fortunately, I also installed to a USB stick, GPT-partitioned with the first partition being freebsd-boot, so I boot with that, and to get the hard-drive installation, escape to loader prompt and type set boot_askname and then ufs:/dev/ada0p3 at the mountroot> prompt. I want to use the hard drive for more than one OS: FreeBSD and Linux. For forensic, testing purposes, I tested and was able to boot the old 9.0-BETA1 installation by set root=(hd0,gpt9) insmod ufs2 kfreebsd /boot/loader boot which is why I think there was possibly a change in loader or kernel format. I was worried that my Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB hard drive was starting to go bad, but now it looks like maybe a change in FreeBSD loader or kernel format. Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
