Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:54:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Michael Thaler <michael.thaler@ph.tum.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GRUB problems Message-ID: <20050427195425.GA10605@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200504272143.24684.michael.thaler@physik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <200504272143.24684.michael.thaler@physik.tu-muenchen.de>
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In the last episode (Apr 27), Michael Thaler said: > Hello, > > I just installed PC-BSD which is based on FreeBSD5.3, but comes with > a graphical installer. > > I already have Windows XP and Debian Linux installed on my computer, > so I could not install PC-BSD in a primary partition at the beginning > of the disk. Instead I created a new primary partition at the end of > the disk. I now have the following disk layout: > > hda3 Primary FreeBSD > > I have the following two entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > title PC-BSD > root (hd0,2,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > With both entries I cannot boot. I get the following error messages: > > Entry 2: > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > kernel /boot/loader > Error 17: cannot mount selected partition > > Is there anything I can do to get this working? You probably don't have ufs support built into grub. I find it easier to just chain to the bootblock instead: root(hd0,2) chainloader +1 -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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