Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:34:35 +0100 From: Werner Koch <wk@isil.d.shuttle.de> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GRUB and rootdev Message-ID: <19980205103435.60098@isil.d.shuttle.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204121107.15689D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 12:11:59PM -0800 References: <19980203172243.56143@isil.d.shuttle.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204121107.15689D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> 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
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