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Re: [trinity-users] Dual booting Devuan and FreeBSD?

From: Robert Peters <robertpeters9@...>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 22:10:08 -0700
On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 23:41, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Anno domini 2019 Mon, 6 May 21:59:18 -0700
>  Robert Peters scripsit:
> > Hello,
> > Now running TDE under Devuan ascii.  SSD has lots of empty space in
> > which I installed FreeBSD 12 from USB.  But it didn't install the boot
> > selection menu.
> > Entered the Live Disk command line and tried using boot0cfg, which
> > created a minimal menu - to boot I still have to keep the USB plugged
> > in.
> > At startup I need to find a way to run FreeBSD on the SSD to be able
> > to install TDE, etc.  Any ideas?
> > Robert
>
> Could you pleas provide some more detailed information?
> GRUB is installed on /dev/sda, grub.cfg is on /dev/sda1/boot/<...>, FreeBSD is on /dev/sda2 | /dev/ada0p2s* ? You are trying to boot from grub? Does the grub chainloader manage to boot the FreeBSD bootloader?
>
> Nik


Hi Nik,
Thanks for the earlier reply.  I have tried various things with grub,
etc... without success.  I will put this on hold for now and do more
research.
Robert