Problem booting FreeBSD from cboot FreeBSD from cdrom using
grubdrom using grub
Tony
tony.uestc at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 06:14:19 PST 2005
I'm using
FreeBSD 5.4
grub 0.95
Is this what you want?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony" <tony.uestc at gmail.com>
> To: <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
> Cc: <tony.uestc at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:43 PM
> Subject: Problem booting FreeBSD from cboot FreeBSD from cdrom using grubdrom using grub
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>> I'm trying to make an iso image that will boot FreeBSD using GRUB boot
>>loader.
>> Grub will boot /boot/loader and the loader will boot /boot/kernel. It
>>goes well on my disk, but when I try to make a livecd, it fails. I spend
>>some time figuring out that /boot/loader does not probe cd it self, it
>>depends on boot2 to tell him which cd to boot from. So I did some hack
>>on /boot/loader. Bellow is the diff:
>>*** sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c.bak Sun Dec 11 19:32:29 2005
>>--- sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c Sun Dec 11 22:04:29 2005
>>***************
>>*** 228,235 ****
>> if ((new_currdev.d_type == biosdisk.dv_type) &&
>> ((new_currdev.d_kind.biosdisk.unit = bd_bios2unit(biosdev)) ==
>>-1)) {
>> printf("Can't work out which disk we are booting from.\n"
>>! "Guessed BIOS device 0x%x not found by probes, defaulting
>>to disk0:\n", biosdev);
>>! new_currdev.d_kind.biosdisk.unit = 0;
>> }
>> env_setenv("currdev", EV_VOLATILE, i386_fmtdev(&new_currdev),
>> i386_setcurrdev, env_nounset);
>>--- 228,238 ----
>> if ((new_currdev.d_type == biosdisk.dv_type) &&
>> ((new_currdev.d_kind.biosdisk.unit = bd_bios2unit(biosdev)) ==
>>-1)) {
>> printf("Can't work out which disk we are booting from.\n"
>>! "Guessed BIOS device 0x%x not found by probes, defaulting
>>to cd0(%d):\n", biosdev, biosdev);
>>! bc_add(biosdev);
>>! new_currdev.d_type = bioscd.dv_type;
>>! new_currdev.d_dev = &bioscd;
>>! new_currdev.d_kind.bioscd.unit = bc_bios2unit(biosdev);
>> }
>> env_setenv("currdev", EV_VOLATILE, i386_fmtdev(&new_currdev),
>> i386_setcurrdev, env_nounset);
>>
>>Then the kernel starts, but when the kernel try to mount the root fs, it
>>stops. I have the follow line in my /etc/fstab
>>/dev/acd0c / cd9660 ro 0 0
>>
>>I am stranded. Can anyone help? I'm using FreeBSD 5.4
>>
>>thanks
>>Tony
>>
>>
>>
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