Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:14:01 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuration of Grub? Message-ID: <200612101314.01945.fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <f2c91f770612091419v7ef57241ufe3599be11c3ab03@mail.gmail.com> References: <200612082010.42744.news@budostore.de> <200612092204.53800.news@budostore.de> <f2c91f770612091419v7ef57241ufe3599be11c3ab03@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday 09 December 2006 22:19, David Stanford wrote: > title FreeBSD > root (hd1,0,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > Right now Linux can not read the FreeBSD disk. Does FreeBSD have its own > > > filesystem? > > Yes, by default FreeBSD uses UFS2. There is almost certainly a third party > app out there that will allow you to read UFS2 from Linux if this is what > you want to do at some point. You can also check 'man mount' under SUSE to > see if there is built-in support for mounting UFS2 filesystems (though this > is probably a long shot). > > Ans if it has its own filesystem how can grub read the /boot/loader in > > > there? > > SUSE may not be able to read it, but remember that Grub is independent (so > to speak) from Linux and has support for booting *BSD OS's. I'm curious as to why people care about UFS support, since chainloading works just fine without filesystem support. Is there a good reason for prefering "kernel /boot/loader" over chainloading on FreeBSD?
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