From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 12:12:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28074 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:12:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28030 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:12:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA15729; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:11:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:11:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Werner Koch cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GRUB and rootdev In-Reply-To: <19980203172243.56143@isil.d.shuttle.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Werner Koch wrote: > Hi, > > While trying to port a program to FreeBSD (I'm a Linux and Hurd user), > I installed FreeBSD on a free partiton (Snapshot from 2.2.97). > > I use GRUB as boot loader and have the problem, that GRUB does not know > of the the FreeBSD filesystem (It's new I guess). I installed the kernel > on a Linux disk and I'm able to boot this kernel .. the problem is > (of course) that it can't mount it's root device. So how can I set > the rootdevice into the kernel image or which argument I can give to > kernel? you're doing it the wrong way -- you need to hack GRUB to recognize the FreeBSD FS. FreeBSD does not support any other root filesystem type other than UFS (with exception, but the Linux FS isn't one of them). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major