freebsd stable - Jul 2012 - Fix for grub 2.00/bzr kfreebsd to boot 9.1 kernels

Hi!

 I'm in the process of testing 9.1 on the laptop where I use grub2
because I had to put bsd in an `extended' slice, and I found out
grub2 won't boot the 9.1 kernel.  Asked on #grub where phcoder
found the fix after I made him a test iso using grub-mkrescue:

	http://paste.debian.net/180121/

Applied that to grub 2.00 from here:

	http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.xz

(built on a Linux debian slice with checkinstall), and that got
the 9.1 kernel booting.  So maybe the sysutils/grub2 maintainer
(Cc'd) wants to update the port to 2.00 and add the patch in
files/? :)  (It's still at 1.98 currently where the patch doesn't
apply.)

 The kfreebsd way to boot this affects is the same as in this
earlier post:

	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2011-March/011828.html

(i.e. this is not chainloading bsd's loader but grub loading the
kernel and klds itself.  I think this way to boot was originally
added by the debian kfreebsd guys, hence the command kfreebsd...)

 HTH,
	Juergen

Hi Juergen,

My email address has changed so don't be alarmed if your CC bounces.  :)
An update of grub2 is long overdue, so I'll work on that right now.

-Rick

On 2012/07/21 11:58, Juergen Lock wrote:
> Hi!
>
>  I'm in the process of testing 9.1 on the laptop where I use grub2
> because I had to put bsd in an `extended' slice, and I found out
> grub2 won't boot the 9.1 kernel.  Asked on #grub where phcoder
> found the fix after I made him a test iso using grub-mkrescue:
>
> 	http://paste.debian.net/180121/
>
> Applied that to grub 2.00 from here:
>
> 	http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.xz
>
> (built on a Linux debian slice with checkinstall), and that got
> the 9.1 kernel booting.  So maybe the sysutils/grub2 maintainer
> (Cc'd) wants to update the port to 2.00 and add the patch in
> files/? :)  (It's still at 1.98 currently where the patch doesn't
> apply.)
>
>  The kfreebsd way to boot this affects is the same as in this
> earlier post:
>
> 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2011-March/011828.html
>
> (i.e. this is not chainloading bsd's loader but grub loading the
> kernel and klds itself.  I think this way to boot was originally
> added by the debian kfreebsd guys, hence the command kfreebsd...)
>
>  HTH,
> 	Juergen
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On 07/21/2012 11:58, Juergen Lock wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>  I'm in the process of testing 9.1 on the laptop where I use grub2
> because I had to put bsd in an `extended' slice, and I found out
> grub2 won't boot the 9.1 kernel. 
Nothing will boot FreeBSD on an extended slice, I'm surprised it even
installed.

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