From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 14:51:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99DD16A41F for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:51:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8C243D5F for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:51:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from [193.5.152.27] (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jBEEp1jM008370 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:51:01 +0100 Message-ID: <43A031B1.2030105@supsi.ch> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:52:33 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: grub doesn't know ufs filesystem 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: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:51:06 -0000 Hello list. Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list. Thank you. I have a old grub floppy that I use time to time to boot/recover pc with different OS.. Today I wanted to boot a freebsd 5.3-RELEASE-p23 box, but to my surprise grub reported: Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 and thus cannot mount /boot/loader So I thought I'd make a grub floppy with a recent version, but even with version 0.97 things won't change.. # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/grub # make install # grub [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,0,a) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 grub> kernel /boot/loader Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition grub> root (hd0, 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 grub> quit # mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/ad0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) linprocfs on /usr/compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local) devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local) Any hint/thought/advice? Best regards. -- Robi