From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 11:46:34 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 3EF5A106567C for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:46:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unga888@yahoo.com) Received: from web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.109]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7F9B8FC12 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unga888@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 3041 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Nov 2008 11:46:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=iKXAHMfnLqhCYXdxSfU3dK8P6VSFnJs/DTEwtZlp+liXE0DV7XWKmE3Ipse98rA7AerAQ9quhup4UwIomSdlU6UKBNStLCfbwaB5EpI55b6rNfb9ebnp+o8ey6wO/pRjeWrU/CrrhIIqZZp3Q+4LrAQWEJh/vOM2Eu99ZxZAp1M=; X-YMail-OSG: VkAiVzUVM1nmKF7PJJ_MrWW6mV9U4nr4VvuhI.ymlaTytHg.GoUG1eIuqQEyx1bswp91YDzAQNpEbMTzRMPbZafdTIkKMARe.QShMKZl6qzaJ.I1bO6uS4BQuIcXDuWTf63ZjsN_vmoubFZo27WghSONrQ5PkyUKA4MFRf7K3u_ukW0T.WhA83ls.9Er Received: from [220.255.7.201] by web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:46:32 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:46:32 -0800 (PST) From: Unga To: Jeremy Chadwick In-Reply-To: <20081113112137.GA19089@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <196932.3036.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com> 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 Reply-To: unga888@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:46:34 -0000 --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > From: Jeremy Chadwick > Subject: Re: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2) > To: "Unga" > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 7:21 PM > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:16:40AM -0800, Unga wrote: > > --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > > > > How about asking the GNU GRUB folks if GRUB 0.97 > supports > > > UFS2? > > > > > It seems some old version of GRUB on a old version of > FreeBSD has worked: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-May/006944.html > > > > > Also, GRUB is up to 1.96, and does work with > amd64. The > > > port is > > > horribly outdated. > > > > > I don't mind try GRUB 1.96. The problem is I have > never used GRUB2 and I have no idea how to configure it. Is > there a good notes/documentation on how to use GRUB2? What > I need basically is where to put files (eg. stage1, stage2 > and *_stage1_5 of GRUB1 in /boot/grub/.) and a sample > configuration file. Anyway meanwhile I'll try to find > some documentation. > > > > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ > > > > > I got my file from above location. > > I think these kinds of questions should probably go to the > GNU GRUB > folks though, don't you think? I don't mean to > sound like I'm stepping > on your efforts, but the sysutils/grub port has very little > to it > (meaning, issues/problems of this type should very likely > be issues with > GRUB itself and not with the port or FreeBSD). > Well, I thought FreeBSD guys use GRUB. Its easy to communicate with those who use FreeBSD rather than those who use Linux and discuss mostly on a theoretical basis. I mostly wanted to know does GRUB works for other FreeBSD users. If so, I could investigate what went wrong on mine. Btw, I did not use the port, its straight away compiled from sources. That I mentioned as the first line in my original post. Regards Unga