Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 04:18:01 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot with GRUB Message-ID: <200306250418.01422.andrew@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <20030625005233.GF46908@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030625055048.1671416d.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <20030625063021.2d6cfe00.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <20030625005233.GF46908@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 1:52 am, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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: > > > > > > > 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". I can confirm that this does indeed work. Grub doesn't know how to read UFS2 filesystems, so to boot FreeBSD 5.1 I'm currently using : root (hd1,0,a) chainloader +1 boot (FreeBSD is installed on my 2nd HDD) Cheers! Andrew.
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