Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:05:58 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Jaroslaw Nozderko" <jarek@eko.net.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual-boot does not work with GRUB Message-ID: <opr0pr38ib0cf2rk@mail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1072207474.1041.15.camel@skorpion> References: <1072140766.1057.20.camel@skorpion> <20031223005816.GA74913@seekingfire.com> <opr0l44bv30cf2rk@mail.messagingengine.com> <1072207474.1041.15.camel@skorpion>
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On 23 Dec 2003 20:24:34 +0100, Jaroslaw Nozderko <jarek@eko.net.pl> wrote: > Hi Jud, Tillman, Bill, > >> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:58:16 -0600, Tillman Hodgson >> <tillman@seekingfire.com> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:52:46AM +0100, Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: >> >> I've got the following error: >> >> >> >> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 >> >> Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition >> >> >> >> Does GRUB have some problems with FreeBSD partition ? >> > >> > I recently ran into the same problem - I found the solution in an >> > archived posting to the bug-grub@ mailing list (from Sergey Matveychuk >> > on Sep 25 2003, if you're interested). >> > >> > Try this: >> > >> > rootnoverify (hd0,1) >> > chainloader +1 >> >> Is your root partition UFS2? GRUB does not understand UFS2 yet as far >> as >> I know, so you may need to chainload as in the above example. >> >> Jud > > Yes, it's UFS2, so probably that was a reason. > rootnoverify (hd0,1) fails: > > Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format > > Fortunately, > > rootnoverify (hd0,2) > chainloader +1 > > finally works ! Slices are: > > swap 1 GB ad0s3b > /home1 1 GB ad0s3d > / 28 GB ad0s3a > > Why 2, not 1 ? I'm a little bit confused. Because (hd0,1) is only an example. For your setup on ad0s3, (hd0,2) is correct (I think, or should it be (hd0,3)?). Jud
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