Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:42:31 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2) Message-ID: <20081113104231.GA17551@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <193750.67373.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <193750.67373.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:24:33AM -0800, Unga wrote: > Hi all > > I have compiled and installed grub-0.97.tar.gz on FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). > > It shows the grub cannot recognize ufs2 file systems. > > grub> root (hd1,0, > Possible partitions are: > Partition num: 0, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow] > BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > BSD Partition num: 'f', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > > All stage1, stage2 and *_stage1_5 are in /boot/grub/. > > The fstype used for bsdlabel for b is swap and for others its 4.2BSD. > > Files systems were created as follows: > newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a > newfs /dev/ad2s1d > newfs -U /dev/ad2s1e > newfs -U /dev/ad2s1f > > Do others experience this issue? Do I need to patch the Grub to recognize ufs2 file systems? > > Your reply is very much appreciated. How about asking the GNU GRUB folks if GRUB 0.97 supports UFS2? Also, GRUB is up to 1.96, and does work with amd64. The port is horribly outdated. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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