----- Original Message -----

From: "Tom Oakes" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 2:16:38 PM 
Subject: booting freebsd 9.1 with grub2 on usf drive 

Hello, 

I have a 2 disk computer. HD1 is divided into 4 partitions Partition1 
contain freebsd 8.2. Partition 2 filled with garbage. partition is 
extended and holds ubuntu. I am trying to get pcbsd work in partition 4. 

I use GAG to boot the various Operating systems. GAG finds a Freebsd 
loader for freebsd 8.2 and freebsd 9.1. Gag finds a grub2 loader for 
ubuntu. This grub will also loads freebsd 8.2 but not 9.2. I can not 
get PCBSD boot with GAG. My system boots from the HD1 MBR. 

I do not want to try installing a pcbsd boot loader in either disk's MBR 
until I can get all 3 systems to boot from my new install of usb grub2! 
I can currently boot ubuntu and freebsd8.2 from usb grub, but have been 
able to get freebsd 9.1 to boot. I haven't tried to get pcbsd to boot 
from the usb grub yet. 

Searching the web for direction find many suggestions but I have found 
nothing that works. Many are version unknown. 

Below is the usb grub 40_custom. As you can see from the commented out 
lines, I have tried many different combinations of entered commands. 

Do you have any suggestions? 

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### 
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply 
type the 
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change 
# the 'exec tail' line above. 
menuentry "FreeBSD 8.2" { 
insmod ufs2 
set root='(hd1,msdos1)' 
# search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 4c9511e4308fb60f 
kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel 
# kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints 
# kfreebsd_module /boot/splash.bmp type=splash_image_data 
set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad4s1a 
} 

menuentry "FreeBSD 9.1"{ 
# insmod chain 
# insmod ufs2 
set root='(hd0,1)' 
# chainloader +1 
# kfreebsd /boot/kernel 
# set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad1s1a 
# title Freebsd 9.1 
#rootnoverify (hd0,1) 
#root (hd0,a) 
kernel /boot/kernel/kernel 
END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### 

If you also have suggestions on how I try to boot the pcbsd OS, I would 
appreciate them! 

Thanks, 

Tom Oakes 

I found the problem 
The DVD drive must be HD0, so the second hard drive turned out to be HD2. 
Tom 
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