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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:54:25 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Michael Thaler <michael.thaler@ph.tum.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