I installed Ubuntu on a disk yesterday which had FreeBSD installed and some spare space. The install went fine and I expect that after a reboot I would be greeted with a Grub menu.... Instead the system booted into Windows, which was unexpected...
My system has a BIOS boot order of hard disk - where FreeBSD (and now Ubuntu) are installed, and Msata disk where Windows is installed. The fact that the system didn't see the hard as a bootable device suggests that Ubuntu screwed something up.
Here is the current partition layout of the disk according to
Should I expect to be able to install FreeBSD's boot manager and have the option of booting either FreeBSD or Ubuntu via F1 or F2. I've never manually installed this, but assume all I need to run is:-
How do I determine why the disk is not seen as bootable via the BIOS?
My system has a BIOS boot order of hard disk - where FreeBSD (and now Ubuntu) are installed, and Msata disk where Windows is installed. The fact that the system didn't see the hard as a bootable device suggests that Ubuntu screwed something up.
Here is the current partition layout of the disk according to
gpart:
Code:
=> 40 1953525088 da0 GPT (932G)
40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)
1064 536870912 2 freebsd-ufs (256G)
536871976 8388608 3 freebsd-swap (4.0G)
545260584 984 - free - (492K)
545261568 2048 4 bios-boot (1.0M)
545263616 1408260096 5 linux-data (672G)
1953523712 1416 - free - (708K)Should I expect to be able to install FreeBSD's boot manager and have the option of booting either FreeBSD or Ubuntu via F1 or F2. I've never manually installed this, but assume all I need to run is:-
boot0cfg -B da0 if the disk is mounted externally...How do I determine why the disk is not seen as bootable via the BIOS?
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