Hello everybody,
I would like to experiment with FreeBSD. As I already have a dual booted machine (Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP) with plenty of disk space, I attempted a triple boot. First, I prepared the .img on a USB flash. As I messed up with dd from Linux, I used Image Writer from Windows XP. Then, I booted from the flash and Synopsis worked properly. When creating the partition, I refused the default geometry, and Synopsis detected the CHS combination matching with that showed by GParted in Linux. Having 300G for Linux and 100G for Windows, I allocated 100G to FreeBSD, then I clicked on A for automatic partition usage. I didn't install the FreeBSD boot manager, as I wanted to continue using Grub2.
At this point, I had warnings on all the four partitions (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Swap), stating that they don't start on a disk sector. The installation went on to completion, though. Now I went back on Linux. On GParted the FreeBSD partition shows as unknown. I edited the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file by adding the following lines:
I used msdos4 mimicking the syntax that GRUB already used for the other systems, considering the partitions as numbered 1 to 4. Finally I updated grub.cfg with update-grub. When selecting FreeBSD from GRUB, it does not start, with a generic error message.
I think this post is long enough for now. I will add details later, as I don't know at the moment what could be useful for the experts. Thank you all in advance for your attention.
I would like to experiment with FreeBSD. As I already have a dual booted machine (Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP) with plenty of disk space, I attempted a triple boot. First, I prepared the .img on a USB flash. As I messed up with dd from Linux, I used Image Writer from Windows XP. Then, I booted from the flash and Synopsis worked properly. When creating the partition, I refused the default geometry, and Synopsis detected the CHS combination matching with that showed by GParted in Linux. Having 300G for Linux and 100G for Windows, I allocated 100G to FreeBSD, then I clicked on A for automatic partition usage. I didn't install the FreeBSD boot manager, as I wanted to continue using Grub2.
At this point, I had warnings on all the four partitions (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Swap), stating that they don't start on a disk sector. The installation went on to completion, though. Now I went back on Linux. On GParted the FreeBSD partition shows as unknown. I edited the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file by adding the following lines:
Code:
menuentry "FreeBSD 8.2 - RELEASE amd64" {
set root=(hd0,msdos4)
chainloader +1
}
I used msdos4 mimicking the syntax that GRUB already used for the other systems, considering the partitions as numbered 1 to 4. Finally I updated grub.cfg with update-grub. When selecting FreeBSD from GRUB, it does not start, with a generic error message.
I think this post is long enough for now. I will add details later, as I don't know at the moment what could be useful for the experts. Thank you all in advance for your attention.