Opened 14 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#8885 closed defect (obsolete)
Multiboot FreeBSD doesn't work because the BIOS always claims to have 1 hard disk
| Reported by: | mlw | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.6 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | BSD | Host type: | Linux |
Description (last modified by )
I have a VM with three virtual IDE hard disks, each one containing a different version of FreeBSD. The mbr on the first disk runs grub to boot/chainload the FreeBSD boot loader from the appropriate disk. This works under VMware server.
When I tried the same thing in VirtualBox, the FreeBSD boot loader fails to detect the second and third disks, so it can't boot from them.
The problem is that the BIOS boot sequence is setting the byte at 0x0475 to 1 unconditionally in hard_drive_post even though the correct value was set by ata_detect (using the variable hdcount).
Please consider adding the attached patch.
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Change History (2)
by , 14 years ago
| Attachment: | rombios-retain-hdcount.patch added |
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comment:1 by , 5 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Resolution: | → obsolete |
| Status: | new → closed |
Closing as obsolete as we completely rewrote our BIOS by now and I can see that the FreeBSD bootloader is able to see more than one disk with a recent VirtualBox release.
Patch for src/VBox/Devices/PC/BIOS/rombios.c