Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 14:15:07 -0800 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Werner Koch <wk@isil.d.shuttle.de> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GRUB and rootdev Message-ID: <199802042215.OAA27531@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Feb 1998 12:11:59 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204121107.15689D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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--==_Exmh_1142257625P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Doug White wrote: > > 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? > > you're doing it the wrong way -- you need to hack GRUB to recognize the > FreeBSD FS. FreeBSD does not support any other root filesystem type other > than UFS (with exception, but the Linux FS isn't one of them). Werner-- Are you sure that GRUB doesn't recognize UFS? Awhile ago I was experimenting with GRUB (0.4 I think) and it worked for FreeBSD almost "out of the box". The one problem it had was difficulty in dealing with the "have one or more IDE disks and want to boot FreeBSD from a SCSI disk" problem. More recent versions of FreeBSD can deal with this at boottime, but back in the FreeBSD 2.1.5 days, I made a quick hack to GRUB to solve this problem, based on some of the code in the boot loader. Bruce. --==_Exmh_1142257625P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNNjoaqjOOi0j7CY9AQEtOAP+Icd7po6OrW4V5+Dk/s22dgiKYasTEW/h +krH0CkxRkna5S9+NZwtfkc+Kq9J6wWp7bjT2APtC7WGvdOhs1lm9J4S/RznQh33 lPM+ZQXX+wyuK0TcMTYshOzdwx07jEJbdtFhtbw/l/3mwB7d2XiM+pI/HKD2UYpu IOuBTwsgn0c= =gv2B -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_1142257625P--
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