I had an error, but didn't know that journaling was the cause, the two filesystem were mounted:
mfsbsd# dump -C16 -b64 -OuanL -h0 -f - /p.rootfs0/ | ( cd /backup/ && restore -ruf - )
DUMP: WARNING: Cannot use -L on an unmounted filesystem.
dump: /p.rootfs0/: unknown file system
Tape is not a...
ok this is how I made it:
1) Reboot from a FreeBSD live cd. Personally I used mfsBSD which wasn't the best idea, since it's old and does not support ufs with journaling. At distrowatch you can see more alternatives
2) Attach a new disk / pendrive empty
3) Create a gpt partition on new...
PCBSD is FreeBSD but provides some gui for install and a pbi manager to install "packages" like chrome and such, so you don't have to compile from source.
Of course, the freebsd ports and everything is 100% compatible, is like installing freebsd and spend a hundred hours configuring it.
Say that I use the default partitioning scheme, which is
[pcbsd@pcbsd-1126] ~% df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/label/rootfs0 2G 409M 1.4G 22% /
devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev
/dev/label/var0 2G...
To automatically add the entry when using update-grub don't just edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg but too the script that creates that file. Add to /etc/grub.d/filename this:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Adding Custom PC-BSD system" >&2
cat << EOF
menuentry "PC-BSD_Unix_KDE" {
set root=(hd0,2)...
How to boot FreeBSD 8.0 or PC-BSD 8.0 with grub2:
menuentry "FreeBSD 8.0 (on /dev/ad0s2)" {
set root=(hd0,2)
chainloader +1
boot
}
Considering that you have installed the FreeBSD bootloader at the beginning of the ad0s2 partition (not in MBR) an additional menu will display (at least...
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