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Subject: Re: Help getting vbox .vdi imares to run under Freenas
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>> |grub> ls (hd0) Device hd0: No known filesystem detected - Total size
>> 16777216 sectors ... where extracting the MBR and looking at it with
>> fdisk shows the partitions... |
  ...
> Well, you are not telling grub to USE a partition, you are asking it to
> read (hd0) has a file system
>
> You likely want something like: ls (hd0,msdos1)

  There's some additional info at 
https://github.com/pr1ntf/iohyve/issues/228 -

> grub> ls
> (hd0) (cd0) (host)
> grub> ls (hd0)
> Device hd0: No known filesystem detected - Total size 16777216 sectors

  ... so it looks like grub isn't able to auto-detect the partitions.

later,

Peter.