Re: Boot problems

[Antonio Huete Jimenez <ahuete.devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,

Does it work if you put 'makeactive' right below rootnoverify?

Cheers,
Antonio Huete

2010/12/30 Dragon Fly <dragonflybugs@gmail.com>:
> Happy New Year, 2011!
>
> I have installed FreeBSD (sdc1) and DragonFlyBSD (sdc4) and for some reason
> I am unable to boot DragonFlyBSD (the boot doesnt move) unless I hide sdc1.
> I understand that DragonFlyBSD uses the same partition id (0xA5) as FreeBSD
> and that is what messing up the boot order. I've tried installing DesktopBSD
> as well but when I choose to boot DesktopBSD it boots FreeBSD.
>
> Here are menu.lst entries -
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>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: other###
>> title FreeBSD 8.1 i386
>> rootnoverify (hd2,0)
>> chainloader +1
>>
>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: other###
>> title DragonFlyBSD-2.8.2-amd64
>> rootnoverify (hd2,3)
>> chainloader +1
>
> Here is Geometry -
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>> grub> geometry (hd2)
>> drive 0x82: C/H/S = 56065/255/63, The number of sectors = 1953525168,
>> /dev/disk
>> /by-id/ata-ST31000528AS_6VP53TG2
>> Partition num: 0, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow]
>> BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5
>> BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5
>> BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5
>> BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5
>> BSD Partition num: 'f', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5
>> BSD Partition num: 'g', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5
>> Partition num: 1, Filesystem type is jfs, partition type 0x83
>> Partition num: 3, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow]
>> BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5
>> BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5
>> BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5
>> BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xa5
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> I will like to compile DragonFlyBSD kernel with this option -
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>> options  ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:ad8s4a\"
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> How do I do this (with what command) and should it be ufs:ad8s3a or ad8s4a.
> In /etc/fstab it says s4a. I am booting everything of SUSE GrUB and it reads
> sdc1 partition as (hd2,0) I am a n00b at DragonFlyBSD and will appreciate
> your help.
>
> Best,
>
> Dave
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