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

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 08:10:00 +0200
Anno domini 2019 Tue, 7 May 22:10:08 -0700
 Robert Peters scripsit:
> 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.

Ok, then you are at the same status with grub as I am. In the end I went the other way round and added GRUB to FreeBSD bootloader :-)

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-introduction.html

> Robert
> 
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