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Old November 17th, 2011, 16:18
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It seems that the FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-${ARCH}-bootonly.iso isn't built with a boot/mfsroot.gz.

Without this there seems no way to boot FreeBSD-9 with grub2.
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Bump. Any ideas on this issue?
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Bump. Any ideas on this issue?
Care to be more specific? What exactly is the part that's not working? Post #16 solves the issue by adding:
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kfreebsd_module (loop)/boot/mfsroot.gz type=mfs_root
Use an ISO version that has mfsroot.gz included. You are not limited to the bootonly.iso.
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This indeed works for FreeBSD 8.x and earlier, however the layout of the 9.0 ISO images has changed significantly - the mentioned mfsroot.gz does not exist anymore.

For earlier editions I was actually using the following config for Grub4dos:

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title FreeBSD 8.3 64-bit
find --set-root /FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
map /FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)
Which works charmfully for basic installations. On our USB sticks we actually have a wide variety of Unix images, which can be booted by either Grub2 or Grub4dos (which in turn is chainloaded from Grub2). In neither Grub2 or Grub4dos I have been successful in booting the FreeBSD 9.0 ISO up to the language selection menu for installations.
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Care to be more specific? What exactly is the part that's not working? Post #16 solves the issue by adding:
Code:
kfreebsd_module (loop)/boot/mfsroot.gz type=mfs_root
Use an ISO version that has mfsroot.gz included. You are not limited to the bootonly.iso.
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The mfsroot.gz NOT included in FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso.
So can't boot by the method...
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