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rsplenum

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Registered: 2013-01-10

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arch and freebsd dual boot

Installed arch and then installed freebsd, grub 2 was intact so booted in to arch and ran:

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

note: os-prober already installed.

got the output:

Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
  No volume groups found
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found unknown Linux distribution on /dev/sda3
done

HOW to make grub recognize freebsd and add an entru in the boot menu to boot in to freebsd ??

nomorewindows

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Re: arch and freebsd dual boot

What is /dev/sda3?  Is this your FreeBSD?  If it is FreeBSD, it needs to chainload to FreeBSD's bootloader.  --Or--FreeBSD's bootloader needs to chainload into grub if you are using ArchLinux or Windows or anything besides BSD.

Last edited by nomorewindows (2013-02-03 20:15:08)

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ewaller

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Re: arch and freebsd dual boot

Hand edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom

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rsplenum

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Re: arch and freebsd dual boot

Hand edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom

freebsd is installed on /dev/sda3 and harddisk is MBR partitioned so what should I add to /etc/grub.d/40custom ?

rsplenum

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Registered: 2013-01-10

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Re: arch and freebsd dual boot

What is /dev/sda3?  Is this your FreeBSD?  If it is FreeBSD, it needs to chainload to FreeBSD's bootloader.  --Or--FreeBSD's bootloader needs to chainload into grub if you are using ArchLinux or Windows or anything besides BSD.

freebsd is on /dev/sda3.How is chainloading freebsdin to arch grub2 menu done ?