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hi, i tried to install freeBsd into a laptop already has windows xp and debian linux installed. i set aside 20G for freeBSD with gparted. however, during the installation, at partition editor stage, when Selecting Create, Delete or Modify gives an error:
Distribution: Mainly Devuan, antiX, & Void, with Tiny Core, Fatdog, & BSD thrown in.
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It doesn't like something about your disk, suggest you take a look at the FreeBSD installation guide, https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books...stall-pre.html
(I think it has to boot from below a certain size of disk.)
I did an install to see if I could reproduce the problem. Installed FreeBSD on a 30GB single partition along side Linux. Everything went fine.
it turned out freebsd doesn't like being installed on logical partition. i set the free partition to primary partition from windows first, then using freebsd installer to delete that partition and create a new one. this time installation went through.
however, after completion of installation and rebooted the machine, grub doesn't display freebsd as an option. i verified both windowsxp and debian can be booted as usual.
here's the partition info by 'fdisk' and output of os-prober.
Code:
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x9f114bc6
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 63 62929439 62929377 30G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 * 106027047 143775701 37748655 18G a5 FreeBSD
/dev/sda3 143806320 156295439 12489120 6G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4 62930942 106027007 43096066 20.6G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 62930944 82460671 19529728 9.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 82462720 85053439 2590720 1.2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 85055488 106027007 20971520 10G 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
erdos@debian:~$ os-prober
unshare failed: Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/lib/os-prober/labels’: Permission denied
erdos@debian:~$ sudo os-prober
/dev/sda1:Microsoft Windows XP Professional:Windows:chain
/dev/sda3:Windows NT/2000/XP:Windows1:chain
erdos@debian:~$
erdos@debian:~$
ok, after I searched online and found out about command 'boot0cfg', I reinstalled FreeBSD and this time instead of rebooting immediately after installation, I went into shell and run the following:
Code:
su
boot0cfg -B ada0
reboot now
now, after reboot, I was given the option to login FreeBSD or win, but not Linux:
F1:Win
F2:FreeBSD
F3:?
F4:?
F6: PXE
//F3 is the windows recovery partition, F4 does not respond.
Try by putting Debian8's boot loader into its root partition.
i tried to reinstall grub by using both netinstall and full image of Debian8 64bit installation.
on netinstall rescue mode(under 'Advanced option' on the main menu), it couldn't detect a kernel image on hard disk.
on full image (live cd version), it doesn't list rescue under 'Advanced Option' at main menu.
That's why. Your Linux distribution needs to be on a primary partition to be properly detected.
MBR is not the best to use for Linux and BSD partitions. You should use a separate hard drive for Linux and BSD to utilize GPT partitioning, and have Windows on it's own disk with MBR still.
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