From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 10:42:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58191065672 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:42:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA318FC1C for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:42:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.51]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id eaSD1a00C16AWCUA9aiYEu; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:42:32 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id eaiX1a0052P6wsM8SaiXpz; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:42:32 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=4zovCoLNNgEA:10 a=VfjhjPEhBy8A:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=eIiNKogPS254NFC8NmAA:9 a=b-afIX86rrQZuHgFn7chNvBLKekA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9321B5C1A; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:42:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:42:31 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Unga Message-ID: <20081113104231.GA17551@icarus.home.lan> References: <193750.67373.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <193750.67373.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:42:32 -0000 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:24:33AM -0800, Unga wrote: > Hi all > > I have compiled and installed grub-0.97.tar.gz on FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). > > It shows the grub cannot recognize ufs2 file systems. > > grub> root (hd1,0, > Possible partitions are: > Partition num: 0, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow] > BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > BSD Partition num: 'f', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > > All stage1, stage2 and *_stage1_5 are in /boot/grub/. > > The fstype used for bsdlabel for b is swap and for others its 4.2BSD. > > Files systems were created as follows: > newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a > newfs /dev/ad2s1d > newfs -U /dev/ad2s1e > newfs -U /dev/ad2s1f > > Do others experience this issue? Do I need to patch the Grub to recognize ufs2 file systems? > > Your reply is very much appreciated. How about asking the GNU GRUB folks if GRUB 0.97 supports UFS2? Also, GRUB is up to 1.96, and does work with amd64. The port is horribly outdated. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |