Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:24:49 -0500 From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "olig" <ogaumond@oricom.ca>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Botting FreeBSD from GRUB Message-ID: <1080062689.22022.183179619@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <406065BA.7060809@oricom.ca> References: <406065BA.7060809@oricom.ca>
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:28:42 -0500, "olig" <ogaumond@oricom.ca> said: > I have Windows XP and Linux already installed on my Laptop and want to > also install FreeBSD (by the way I'm new to FreeBSD but quite > experimented with Linux). I successfully installed FreeBSD on a primary > partition (slice) with most of the default options. However I did > choose to leave the MBR untouched because I want to boot FreeBSD with > GRUB. I can boot Linux and Windows without problems from GRUB, but > can't boot FreeBSD. > And my Grub configuration concerning FreeBSD > > # For booting FreeBSD > title FreeBSD 5.2 > root (hd0,2,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > > When I try to boot FreeBSD I get the following error from grub: > filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > error 17 cannot mount selected partition > > Also I can't mount the FreeBSD partition under Linux. > # mount -t ufs /dev/hda3 /mnt/freebsd/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3, > or too many mounted file systems > > But I can succesfully mount it under FreeBSD booting with the fixit > floppy. 1. Grub and your mount command are having difficulty reading UFS2, the new default filesystem for FreeBSD 5.x. One solution is to choose to use the "old" filesystem, UFS. I have seen previous discussions here about this topic; right now I cannot remember what was said, but you should be able to find these messages with a search from <URL: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/>. 2. If the steps you took in response to #1 prove insufficient, choose a "normal" MBR (not the FreeBSD boot loader, not to leave the MBR untouched) when installing FreeBSD. Jud
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