Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:14:05 -0800 (PST) From: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2) Message-ID: <267379.91180.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <193750.67373.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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--- On Thu, 11/13/08, Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com>
> Subject: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2)
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
> Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 6:24 PM
> Hi all
>
> I have compiled and installed grub-0.97.tar.gz on FreeBSD
> 7.0 (i386).
>
> It shows the grub cannot recognize ufs2 file systems.
>
> grub> root (hd1,0,
> 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
>
> All stage1, stage2 and *_stage1_5 are in /boot/grub/.
>
> The fstype used for bsdlabel for b is swap and for others
> its 4.2BSD.
>
> Files systems were created as follows:
> newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a
> newfs /dev/ad2s1d
> newfs -U /dev/ad2s1e
> newfs -U /dev/ad2s1f
>
Ok, found the problem. Its the newfs. The problem is GRUB cannot recognize ufs2 file systems created by newfs. The GRUB can recognize ufs2 file systems created by sysinstall.
I have even tried "newfs -O 2 -U /dev/ad2s1a", the GRUB still cannot recognize ufs2 file systems.
Now the question is, how to properly create a ufs2 file system manually? Is it by newfs?
Also appreciate if someone could let me know where does it create ufs2 file systems in sysinstall.
Best regards
Unga
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