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Booting FreeBSD alongside Linux

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I want to install FreeBSD alongside my Debian, Arch and Kali installs, but I'm having problem creating a bootable USB. I followed the instructions given in the BSD handbook, but my PC doesn't recognise the USB during boot process. I tried $ chainloader (hd0)/boot/boot1.efi $ boot at the grub prompt but it gave an error which says something like 'zfs couldn't find pool;ufs couldn't find slice; can not load loader.efi;' loader.efi is also in the (hd0)/boot directory. Do I need to format the USB drive as USB or ZFS prior to image burning, or do I need to format the partitions on which I'm going to install BSD as UFS or ZFS? My laptop is an HP-15ac650tu. These are the two images I used, the result was same both times: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso.xz ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.xz NOTE: I have read the other threads with similar names, and they do not mention the error I'm getting.
Asked by saga (1411 rep)
Oct 16, 2016, 07:35 AM
Last activity: Oct 20, 2016, 01:27 PM