From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 09:38:27 2004 Return-Path: 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 1FA6616A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:38:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE8143D46 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from server2.messagingengine.com (server2.internal [10.202.2.133]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F1B82E6A7; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:24:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id B5ED0726DC; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:24:49 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Jud" To: "olig" , "freebsd-questions" Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:24:49 -0500 X-Sasl-Enc: CKEtvgqcgreXs7q6KMmooQ 1080062689 Message-Id: <1080062689.22022.183179619@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <406065BA.7060809@oricom.ca> In-Reply-To: <406065BA.7060809@oricom.ca> Subject: Re: Botting FreeBSD from GRUB X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:38:27 -0000 On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:28:42 -0500, "olig" 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 . 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