Back in February I built my FreeBSD 8.2 (64 bit) box and was running without many issues. Last month I installed Windows 7 (64 bit), not by choice but I needed an app that is windows only, on a second drive... I unplugged my BSD drive and plugged in the new drive for the install, when done I swapped the cable back and when happily back to BSD.
Last weekend I decided to try out Ubuntu 11.04 (64 bit), and followed the same procedure, new drive, all other drives unplugged...install, play, swap back...
This is where I hit a wall. Seems that Ubuntu's Grub2 flashed info to my BIOS defining my boot sequence, and not allowing me to boot anything unless the Ubuntu drive is connected. OK, no big deal, I would like to be able to boot into all three without having to open the case, so I connect all three and start fiddling with Grub2's config. Grub sees the Windows drive without issue automatically, but not the BSD. I play with it till I get Grub2 to locate and acknowledge the drive, but BSD will not boot. I just get a blinking cursor!!!
I am using the custom grub menu, the code that loads the drive and gets tot he blinking cursor is:
How can I get BSD to boot?
Last weekend I decided to try out Ubuntu 11.04 (64 bit), and followed the same procedure, new drive, all other drives unplugged...install, play, swap back...
This is where I hit a wall. Seems that Ubuntu's Grub2 flashed info to my BIOS defining my boot sequence, and not allowing me to boot anything unless the Ubuntu drive is connected. OK, no big deal, I would like to be able to boot into all three without having to open the case, so I connect all three and start fiddling with Grub2's config. Grub sees the Windows drive without issue automatically, but not the BSD. I play with it till I get Grub2 to locate and acknowledge the drive, but BSD will not boot. I just get a blinking cursor!!!
I am using the custom grub menu, the code that loads the drive and gets tot he blinking cursor is:
Code:
menuentry "FreeBSD 8.2" {
set root=(hd1,1)
chainloader+1
}
How can I get BSD to boot?