Cannot add FreeBSD entry to grub 2

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 11 03:03:32 UTC 2012


Dear folks,

I have succeded in installing Fedora 17 nightly build.  I have successfully added the updates as of yesterday and today.  I cannot add FreeBSD entry to the grub2 configuration.  I have read several howto's but only Fedora and two entries for windows show up:

[root at acer-aspire-1 grub.d]# cat 40_custom 
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menentry "FreeBSD 9.0" {
	insmod part_msdos
	set root='(hd0,msdos3)'
	chainloader +1
}

[root at acer-aspire-1 grub.d]# grep menuentry /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
  menuentry_id_option="--id"
  menuentry_id_option=""
export menuentry_id_option
menuentry 'Fedora Linux' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-252c5a55-c4ed-43d2-b24c-b1c94385a4fc' {
submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora Linux' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-252c5a55-c4ed-43d2-b24c-b1c94385a4fc' {
	menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.1-3.fc17.i686' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.3.1-3.fc17.i686-advanced-252c5a55-c4ed-43d2-b24c-b1c94385a4fc' {
	menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.1-3.fc17.i686 (recovery mode)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.3.1-3.fc17.i686-recovery-252c5a55-c4ed-43d2-b24c-b1c94385a4fc' {
	menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.0-1.fc17.i686' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.3.0-1.fc17.i686-advanced-252c5a55-c4ed-43d2-b24c-b1c94385a4fc' {
	menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.0-1.fc17.i686 (recovery mode)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.3.0-1.fc17.i686-recovery-252c5a55-c4ed-43d2-b24c-b1c94385a4fc' {
menuentry 'Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda1)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-FC8CF1D08CF18584' {
menuentry 'Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (on /dev/sda2)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-5E9AC1839AC15863' {


I have read that adding FreeBSD entry to 40_custom in /etc/grub.d/ and running ./40_custom will add the entry to grub.cfg, but it does not do it, it appears to be in /etc/grub.cfg, but the entry is not there :(

I can boot FreeBSD by typing c at the menu, and 

grub>	set root='(hd0,msdos3)'
grub>	chainloader +1
grub>   boot

and it would work, but I would prefer to have the entry and avoid doing this every time.  I have run 
# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

It does nothing to add the entry.  I have looked here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2

but am at the same place.  I also want to remove rhgb and quiet from the grub entry, I did it manually in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg but running the command above restored it back :(

I appreciate any pointers to getting this fixed.  If it were not for the FreeBSD entry, I cannot happily triple boot on this machine :(

Regards,


Antonio 


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