From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 03:08:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01608 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 03:08:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from koeln.shuttle.de (koeln.shuttle.de [194.95.247.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01603 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 03:08:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@koeln.shuttle.de) Received: (from root@localhost) by koeln.shuttle.de (8.8.5/8.7.1) id MAA06109 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 12:08:31 +0100 (MET) X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: (qmail 22512 invoked from network); 5 Feb 1998 09:30:19 -0000 Received: from frodo.isil.d.shuttle.de (qmailr@172.20.1.4) by beren.isil.d.shuttle.de with SMTP; 5 Feb 1998 09:30:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 740 invoked by uid 501); 5 Feb 1998 09:34:36 -0000 Message-ID: <19980205103435.60098@isil.d.shuttle.de> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:34:35 +0100 From: Werner Koch To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GRUB and rootdev References: <19980203172243.56143@isil.d.shuttle.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 12:11:59PM -0800 X-URL: http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil 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" Doug White writes: > 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). Sure, that't the correct way. But I like to install FreeBSD first, so I can look at it's sources. The only problem is, that I don't know, how to tell the kernel what the rootdev is. The installation made a custom kernel out of kernel.GENERIC and I' can't believe, that it is not possible to set the rootdev into that kernel (which boots) - or does the kernel use the device from which it is loaded as rootdev? In that case I really have to patch GRUB so it can load the kernel from the freebsd filesystem. By the way, what is the difference between the FreeBSD filesystem, mentioned in the GRUB dox and the one which is used by FreeBSD (GRUB complains that it does not know this file system on partion with type a5) still wondering. -- Werner Koch, Duesseldorf - werner.koch@guug.de - PGP keyID: 0C9857A5