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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
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In the last episode (Jun 25), Robert Storey said:
> On 25 Jun 2003 00:12:57 +0200 Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk> wrote:
> > Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> writes:
> > > When I had 5.0, I could easily boot FBSD from GRUB using these
> > > settings in my Linux's /boot/grub/menu.lst file:
> > > 
> > >   title FreeBSD
> > >   root (hd0,1,a)
> > >   kernel /boot/loader
> > >   boot
> > > 
> > > These settings no longer work, and I get an error message that Linux
> > > does not recognize this (FBSD's) filesystem.
> > 
> > Is your / filesystem by any chance UFS2?
> 
> I believe you are right, my filesystem is UFS2. Changing the
> filesystem back to UFS1 is probably more than I'd want to do, so I
> guess I'll stick with booting using GAG (on a floppy or CDROM) until
> such time as GRUB acquires the ability to boot UFS2.

Another thing to try is chaining to the bootblock on the FreeBSD
partition.  Use "rootnoverify (hd0,1)", then "chainloader +1", then
"boot".


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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com