bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #487, cannot boot FreeBSD directly

 
 

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bug #487: cannot boot FreeBSD directly

Submitted by:  Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Submitted on:  Tue 28 May 2002 09:29:56 PM UTC  
 
Category: BootingSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Software Error
Status: NonePrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 0.92
Release: NoneReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:12:25 AM UTC, comment #3:

We've moved to GRUB 2 as our development branch. *BSD booting is not supported there, so I'm closing this bug.

If someone wants to work on *BSD boot support for GRUB 2, please contact us at <grub-devel@gnu.org> announcing your intent to avoid duplication of effort.

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Project Administrator
Wed 19 Apr 2006 09:09:36 PM UTC, comment #2:

Bug #10728 contains a patch that seems to address this.

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Project Administrator
Thu 13 Mar 2003 10:21:08 PM UTC, comment #1:

i think booting /boot/loader directly instead of the kernel
is a good thing. there are several kernel tunables that
must be set by /boot/loader.

also, for freebsd 5.0, /boot/loader loads stuff like the acpi
module. it is not built into the kernel by default. i think
the acpi stuff is special, though -- no other module is
loaded by /boot/loader.

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Anonymous
Tue 28 May 2002 09:29:56 PM UTC, original submission:

GRUB cannot boot FreeBSD 3.4 or later directly. That's because GRUB
assumes the old booting protocol, and FreeBSD kernel complains of it.
Even though you can work around the problem by booting /boot/loader or
chainloading the boot loader of FreeBSD, that's undesirable, because
you cannot control how to boot FreeBSD, including netboot.

Okuji

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Project Administrator

 

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