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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Can't boot FreeBSD after successful installation. Post 303036730 by vectrum on Tuesday 9th of July 2019 12:42:16 PM
Old 07-09-2019
Can't boot FreeBSD after successful installation.
This is a cross post as I haven't got any solution and I'm badly in need of one.

I've installed Slackware 14.2 in /dev/sda1 and x86Solaris 10 U6 in /dev/sda3 (sda2 is Linux swap)and boot menu was Solaris grub but, later deleted Solaris partition and installed FreeBSD12 (for i386) on the same partition.

I created separate partitions for /boot (1G), / (1G), /var (2G), /tmp (1G), swap (3G) and / (23G) in FreeBSD and the installation was seemed to be OK as there was no error msg.

But FreeBSD couldn't boot so I had to use Slack's installation disc to boot slack and used lilo -v to add slack in lilo table. Here lilo throws the following errors:

Quote:
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda1
Using BITMAP secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Mapping bitmap file /boot/slack.bmp
Calling map_insert_file

Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-huge-smp-4.4.172-smp
Added Linux *

Boot other: /dev/sda3, on /dev/sda, loader CHAIN
Added FreeBSD

Writing boot sector.
/boot/boot.0801 exists - no boot sector backup copy made.
One warning was issued.
I also make /dev/sda1 as active in lilo using fdisk with a command. Now there are two partitions are marked active, /dev/sda1 for slack and /dev/sda3 for FreeBSD.

In lilo boot menu the following error message appears when FreeBSD is selected.

Quote:
FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot: loader: not a config directory

FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot: _ <*here cursor blinks*>
I think it comes from a leftover of Solaris' grub but I'm not sure.

Here is the lilo.conf entry for slack and freebsd:

Quote:
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda1
label = Linux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
other=/dev/sda3
table=/dev/sda
label=FreeBSD
I use 486 with 1.5G memory and 180G ide type HDD.

How will I be able to boot FreeBSD?

P.S FreeBSD 4x to 8x installation was much much better. Nowadays everything seems to be foreign.
Last edited by vectrum; 07-09-2019 at 01:57 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

liloconfig

LILOCONFIG(8)						     liloconfig documentation						     LILOCONFIG(8)

NAME

       liloconfig - create new lilo.conf file (with diskid and uuid)

SYNOPSIS

       liloconfig [-h] [-v] [-f] [lilo.conf]

DESCRIPTION

       liloconfig is an simple program for creating a new lilo.conf file.  After creating the new configuration file you must execute
       '/sbin/lilo'.

       liloconfig use the lilo.example.conf file as template. In the final lilo.conf file you find many useful comments for custom changes.

OPTIONS

       -h  Print a brief help.

       -v  Print verbose messages.

       -f  Force overriding existing lilo.conf.

EXAMPLES

       Lines in the configuration file /etc/lilo.conf:

	 ### LILO global section ###

	 #large-memory
	 lba32
	 boot = /dev/sda
	 map = /boot/map
	 install = menu
	 menu-scheme = Wb:Yr:Wb:Wb
	 prompt
	 timeout = 100
	 vga = normal
	 #default = Linux

	 ### LILO per-image section ###

	 #boot = /dev/sda
	 boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SV1604N_S01FJ10X999999

	 image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5book-686
	     label = "Linux"
	     #root = /dev/sda1
	     root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
	     read-only
	 #   restricted
	 #   alias = 1
	 #   optional
	     initrd = /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5book-686

	 image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
	     label = "Linux Old"
	     #root = /dev/sda1
	     root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
	     read-only
	 #   restricted
	 #   alias = 2
	 #   optional
	     initrd = /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
       Copyright (C) 2011 Joachim Wiedorn

       This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

AUTHOR

       lilconfig was written by Joachim Wiedorn.

       This manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian at joonet.de> for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       lilo(8), update-lilo(8), lilo-uuid-diskid(8)

23.1								    2011-03-20							     LILOCONFIG(8)
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