Bret Busby | 2 Sep 2012 10:23
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Query about PC-BSD 9.1 and multiple booting

Hello.

I am wondering whether PC-BSD 9.1 will come with GRUB (version 2?)
included, and automatically configure it, or, be able to automatically
configure an existing installation of GRUB, so that GRUB will
automatically find PC-BSD and offer it as an option, in providing
multiple boot options.

I have been running Debian Linux; on another computer, I have Debian 5
installed, in addition to Debian 6 (the multifunction printer
software, apparently, instals on 5, but not on 6), and, on this
computer, I also have Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux installed.

On the other computer, and HP/Compaq NX5000, I had installed also
PC-BSD 9, but, when it rebooted, no option was available to boot into
PC-BSD 9, and I have not been able to get PC-BSD 9 as an option in the
installed GRUB on that computer.

Thus, while I have managed to instal PC-BSD 9, on a computer that has
other operating systems installed, I cannot boot into PC-BSD 9, as it
is not found by, and, I cannot get the bootloader configured to find
it with, GRUB.

So, I am wondering whether, when PC-BSD 9.1 is released, it will
incorporate GRUB so as to enable, in such a way, or otherwise cause,
GRUB to find and offer PC-BSD as a boot option, as I have been unable
to achieve that, and now have an inaccessible installation of PC-BSD
9.

Also, I note that, from what I have read thus far about PC-BSD 9.1, it
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Bret Busby | 2 Sep 2012 12:02
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Re: Query about PC-BSD 9.1 and multiple booting

On 02/09/2012, Bret Busby <bret.busby@...> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am wondering whether PC-BSD 9.1 will come with GRUB (version 2?)
> included, and automatically configure it, or, be able to automatically
> configure an existing installation of GRUB, so that GRUB will
> automatically find PC-BSD and offer it as an option, in providing
> multiple boot options.
>
> I have been running Debian Linux; on another computer, I have Debian 5
> installed, in addition to Debian 6 (the multifunction printer
> software, apparently, instals on 5, but not on 6), and, on this
> computer, I also have Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux installed.
>
> On the other computer, and HP/Compaq NX5000, I had installed also
> PC-BSD 9, but, when it rebooted, no option was available to boot into
> PC-BSD 9, and I have not been able to get PC-BSD 9 as an option in the
> installed GRUB on that computer.
>
> Thus, while I have managed to instal PC-BSD 9, on a computer that has
> other operating systems installed, I cannot boot into PC-BSD 9, as it
> is not found by, and, I cannot get the bootloader configured to find
> it with, GRUB.
>

Amongst all that I have tried to do to get it working, before today, I
have today tried the following, without success.

I found ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/handbook/9.0/handbook_en_ver9.0.html#__RefHeading__3686_904698251
, especially, in that,
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