[PC-BSD] Trouble installing PC-BSD to replace windows xp

[Taccid]

ubuntu is my primary OS, and my secondary is windows xp. I decide to replace it with freebsd, so i take a pcbsd dvd, boot it, set to install freebsd, and install it. But, grub still sees windows XP, tough without the possibility of opening: and ubuntu can' t mount the freebsd HD.
can somebody please help me?

 

[mocra]

you have to update grub in your ubuntu

 

[Taccid]

is it normal that gparted can't see anything about this partition? anyway, thanks.

 

[mocra]

i'am not sure but i think, that gparted see at least that there is a slice

to mount your freebsd partitions rw, you have to enable a kernel module, but ro works usually (at least on my system running debian)

 

[Taccid]

to update grub, do i sudo update-grub? cause if it' s so, it failed.

 

[mocra]

afaik, update-grub only looks for vmlinuz- files in your /boot directory

take a look at this: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/configure-ubuntu-grub-to-load-freebsd.html

 

[Taccid]

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title		Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sdb1
title PcBSD 8.0
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/loader

i wrote this, but when i try to boot pcbsd (i installed that) there is an error 17: can't mount partition. it is on the first and only partition of the secondo HD.

 

[JimW]

Try this....

title           PcBSD 8.0
rootnoverify    (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader	+1

 

[DutchDaemon]

PC-BSD != FreeBSD, don't confuse them -> Topics about PC-BSD / FreeNAS / DesktopBSD / m0N0WALL / pfSense

 

[Taccid]

i opened this thread cause at first i installed freebsd, anyway, i'll go on that forum. thanks jim, perfectly works! i' m currently writing from pcbsd.

 

[klanger]

Have fun with *BSD, soon it will be your only open source OS