From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 13:37:33 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 79446106567B for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:37:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from mx.utwente.nl (mx2.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBF38FC0A for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:37:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by mx.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id mADDbRjr010119; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:37:27 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, unga888@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:37:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <196932.3036.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <196932.3036.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811131437.27480.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Jeremy Chadwick 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 13:37:33 -0000 On Thursday 13 November 2008, Unga wrote: > --- 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 horribly outdated.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 I've used GRUB in the past to boot FreeBSD. The GRUB boot directory was located on the FreeBSD root partition, so it can work. I did use the port though. -- Pieter de Goeje