On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 23:10, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@...> wrote:
>
> 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

So, the outcome of all that is: I installed FreeBSD on all of a 500G
SSD.  With some looking was able to install and use a desktop system
(Mate), configure Wifi, the system clock, etc.  But I would really
like to be using TDE.
There are several posts from years back by people trying to port TDE
programs to FreeBSD.  I have some software experience and would be
glad to help if possible.
Robert