From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 3 08:21:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16334 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 08:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from koeln.shuttle.de (koeln.shuttle.de [194.95.247.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16261 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 08:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@koeln.shuttle.de) Received: (from root@localhost) by koeln.shuttle.de (8.8.5/8.7.1) id RAA13963 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:20:37 +0100 (MET) X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: (qmail 19240 invoked from network); 3 Feb 1998 16:18:37 -0000 Received: from frodo.isil.d.shuttle.de (qmailr@172.20.1.4) by beren.isil.d.shuttle.de with SMTP; 3 Feb 1998 16:18:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 4350 invoked by uid 501); 3 Feb 1998 16:22:43 -0000 Message-ID: <19980203172243.56143@isil.d.shuttle.de> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:22:43 +0100 From: Werner Koch To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: GRUB and rootdev Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 X-URL: http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Hi, While trying to port a program to FreeBSD (I'm a Linux and Hurd user), I installed FreeBSD on a free partiton (Snapshot from 2.2.97). I use GRUB as boot loader and have the problem, that GRUB does not know of the the FreeBSD filesystem (It's new I guess). I installed the kernel on a Linux disk and I'm able to boot this kernel .. the problem is (of course) that it can't mount it's root device. So how can I set the rootdevice into the kernel image or which argument I can give to kernel? [I'm not subscribed to this ML (don't even know if it is one); please cc direct] tia Werner -- Werner Koch, Duesseldorf - werner.koch@guug.de - PGP keyID: 0C9857A5