Hi everyone!
Sorry for my bad English, hope you all guys understand what I'm talking about.
I'm trying to install FreeBSD on external USB drive on my macbook pro. As it turned out it's not so easy.
I'm installing FreeBSD on GPT disk (750Gb) and I want following partition table:
[600Gb HFS+]
[64K freebsd-boot]
[145Gb freebsd-ufs]
[4GB freebsd-swap]
This is default layout which is suggested by FreeBSD 9 sysinstall.
Installation finished without any problems.
I'm using this guide: http://www.glenbarber.us/2011/11/12/Dual-Booting-OS-X-and-FreeBSD-9.html
and after installation I open LiveCD shell and install boot loader:
Than I tried to boot but no luck.
OS X boot menu doesn't show anything except my internal HDD with OSX and recovery partition.
After that, I decide to install refit. For some reason refit item doesn't showing in boot menu.
Because of that I install refit to my 4Gb usb-flash key. Than I see menu item but it don't recognize any FreeBSD installations.
Interesting thing:
I tried several times to install with different layout. And what I found, if I have clean HDD with layout:
[600Gb HFS+]
[150Gb freespace]
and install refIT, I see refit menu item in boot menu.
But just after FreeBSD installation it disappearing.
Another interesting thing, here is my current layout:
Notice that instead of "FreeBSD Boot" I have that strange UID.
After a lot of tries I'm even tried to install grub2 efi module, it successfully loaded and even able to see FreeBSD partitions.
I tried this commands:
But again, no luck. It just show me black screen for a 20-30 seconds than reboot.
So, guys, can anybody point me to good article or just give some directions what to read?
Oh, yeah, I don't want to use virtualbox.
Thanks, and again, sorry for my bad english
Sorry for my bad English, hope you all guys understand what I'm talking about.
I'm trying to install FreeBSD on external USB drive on my macbook pro. As it turned out it's not so easy.
I'm installing FreeBSD on GPT disk (750Gb) and I want following partition table:
[600Gb HFS+]
[64K freebsd-boot]
[145Gb freebsd-ufs]
[4GB freebsd-swap]
This is default layout which is suggested by FreeBSD 9 sysinstall.
Installation finished without any problems.
I'm using this guide: http://www.glenbarber.us/2011/11/12/Dual-Booting-OS-X-and-FreeBSD-9.html
and after installation I open LiveCD shell and install boot loader:
# gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 3 da0
Than I tried to boot but no luck.
OS X boot menu doesn't show anything except my internal HDD with OSX and recovery partition.
After that, I decide to install refit. For some reason refit item doesn't showing in boot menu.
Because of that I install refit to my 4Gb usb-flash key. Than I see menu item but it don't recognize any FreeBSD installations.
Interesting thing:
I tried several times to install with different layout. And what I found, if I have clean HDD with layout:
[600Gb HFS+]
[150Gb freespace]
and install refIT, I see refit menu item in boot menu.
But just after FreeBSD installation it disappearing.
Another interesting thing, here is my current layout:
# diskutil list
Code:
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS josser-netdrive 600.0 GB disk1s2
3: 83BD6B9D-7F41-11DC-BE0B-001560B84F0F 65.5 KB disk1s3
4: FreeBSD UFS 145.0 GB disk1s4
5: FreeBSD Swap 4.3 GB disk1s5
Notice that instead of "FreeBSD Boot" I have that strange UID.
After a lot of tries I'm even tried to install grub2 efi module, it successfully loaded and even able to see FreeBSD partitions.
I tried this commands:
Code:
set root=(hd0,3)
kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel
kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints
boot
So, guys, can anybody point me to good article or just give some directions what to read?
Oh, yeah, I don't want to use virtualbox.
Thanks, and again, sorry for my bad english