It's about 2 years ago that I asked about creating a dual-boot set-up on a notebook with an Intel N3150 and Intel WiFi:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/dual-boot-freebsd-and-linux-on-a-single-disk.55260/
The system is used mostly under Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 with home-built updates) and at the time it refused to boot back into FreeBSD after I ran Linux grub (despite following the instructions and the fact the BSD partition was detected correctly). FreeBSD didn't support my hardware properly anyway, so I left the partition alone for the time being. In the meantime I also installed a modern, rolling Linux distro on another partition (KaOS); in practice I mostly use that via VirtualBox with raw-disk access because KaOS turns out to have very strict requirements for its boot environment.
The Ubuntu 14.04 install runs off a ZFS pool (ZoL 0.7.6), with /boot hosted on a good-old-ext4 partition.
I'm back now to check if there is proper support for the N3150 with its embedded GPU as well as for the Intel WiFi subsystem.
If so, how can I get back into the FreeBSD install and upgrade it in a way that isn't going to put my Linux install at risk? Can a 2y old FreeBSD install be upgraded to the current version or am I going to have to uninstall/reinstall "manually"?
Has any progress been made in grub so it creates bootloaders that actually serve all installed OS types, both Linux and *BSD, no matter from where it's called?
I could probably boot into my current FreeBSD install by making its partition accessible to a VirtualBox VM via raw disk access just as I do for the KaOS install. Will that work? I seem to recall that VirtualBox had guest extensions for the OS, so this should avoid the unsupported hardware problem my current install has.
Thanks for any pointers!
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/dual-boot-freebsd-and-linux-on-a-single-disk.55260/
The system is used mostly under Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 with home-built updates) and at the time it refused to boot back into FreeBSD after I ran Linux grub (despite following the instructions and the fact the BSD partition was detected correctly). FreeBSD didn't support my hardware properly anyway, so I left the partition alone for the time being. In the meantime I also installed a modern, rolling Linux distro on another partition (KaOS); in practice I mostly use that via VirtualBox with raw-disk access because KaOS turns out to have very strict requirements for its boot environment.
The Ubuntu 14.04 install runs off a ZFS pool (ZoL 0.7.6), with /boot hosted on a good-old-ext4 partition.
I'm back now to check if there is proper support for the N3150 with its embedded GPU as well as for the Intel WiFi subsystem.
If so, how can I get back into the FreeBSD install and upgrade it in a way that isn't going to put my Linux install at risk? Can a 2y old FreeBSD install be upgraded to the current version or am I going to have to uninstall/reinstall "manually"?
Has any progress been made in grub so it creates bootloaders that actually serve all installed OS types, both Linux and *BSD, no matter from where it's called?
I could probably boot into my current FreeBSD install by making its partition accessible to a VirtualBox VM via raw disk access just as I do for the KaOS install. Will that work? I seem to recall that VirtualBox had guest extensions for the OS, so this should avoid the unsupported hardware problem my current install has.
Thanks for any pointers!