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I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed as my primary operating system, and I installed PC BSD in a different partition: /dev/sda4 without installing it's boot loader. I figured out that I need to edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom to add an entry for PC-BSD. So far, nothing seems to work, though.

EDIT: this sort of works, but doesn't fully boot the OS, it then asks me for the MOUNTROOT partition.

menuentry "PC-BSD 8.1" { insmod ufs2 set root=(hd0,4) kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel }

The selected answer below is correct. If you are dual-booting with Linux I suggest NOT installing the PC-BSD bootloader as the documentation suggests, unless you enjoy pain.

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this is what I have in /etc/grub.d/40_custom. Works for me :) Just remember to subsitude hd0,3 with your correct entry

menuentry 'FreeBSD 8.0 64bit' --class os { set root='(hd0,3)' chainloader +1 }
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    I think that for this to work you need to have the PC-BSD boot loader installed into the PC-BSD partition boot blocks. I sounds like postfuturist does not have the PC-BSD boot loader installed anywhere. If the PC-BSD boot loader can live in the PC-BSD partition boot blocks installing it there will probably get postfuturist up and running. Commented Aug 20, 2010 at 14:40
  • In the graphical installer there is a button at the bottom of the disk selection screen titled "Install PC-BSD boot loader": wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/… . Does this just install the boot loader on the partition, or the MBR of the disk? Commented Aug 21, 2010 at 22:02
  • @postfuturist: I don't know, but you can try installing it and restore grub if it is installed on the MBR. Here is the guide for restoring grub wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recover%20Grub%202%20via%20LiveCD Commented Aug 22, 2010 at 16:21
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There is another solution mentioned here: Add FreeBSD to GRUB2 boot menu, which is:

menuentry "FreeBSD" --class freebsd --class bsd --class os { insmod ufs2 insmod bsd set root=(hd0,1) kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ada0s1a set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw set kFreeBSD.hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 }

This solution worked for me triple-booting Ubuntu 12.04, LFS 7.9 and FreeBSD 10.3

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