olig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And my Grub configuration concerning FreeBSD > > # For booting FreeBSD > title FreeBSD 5.2 > root (hd0,2,a) > kernel /boot/loader
Looks good (and matching your fdisk output) and similar to mine which works OK with 5.2+. I can confirm that "kernel <kernel>" doesn't work, and the loader does. > When I try to boot FreeBSD I get the following error from grub: > filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > error 17 cannot mount selected partition Never seen that. The partition type is same as mine. > Also I can't mount the FreeBSD partition under Linux. > # mount -t ufs /dev/hda3 /mnt/freebsd/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3, > or too many mounted file systems I'm not at all sure, but I think that your "hda3" is telling "mount" that there is a file system where there are actually boot records, etc. IIRC, the BSD partitions have Linux numbers > 4. Check your dmesg or boot messages to see what it detected. Could be you need UFS support compiled into your Linux kernel. When I tried a couple of years ago, Linux couldn't even read my FreeBSD files reliably. > Is there a way to install FreeBSD's bootloader on a floppy to boot my > installed system? I doubt it. But you can install GRUB or LILO of a floppy to do it. Except I suppose GRUB would behave the same for you there too. > I am quite mixed up with FreeBSD slices and sub-partitions which are > not the same as DOS or Linux partitions. Also after installing > FreeBSD, Linux's fdisk reported problems about partitions not ending > on cylinder boudaries. I used Linux for many years and learned to ignore those common msgs. I have no solution for you, but you might try playing with the GRUB commands at it's prompt during boot. You should be able to poke around the FreeBSD file system a bit, for example. You might also try installing FreeBSD's "sysutils/grub" port and see if that works any better. I remember some change in behavior after switched to 5.x, which I think was a coincidental GRUB change. Unfortunatly, I can't quite remember what it was -- IIRC, it now won't let me install the grub boot loader from a running FreeBSD like it once did and I had to do it from GRUB's boot prompt or from a grub floppy or something. Maybe the grub program seemed to be generally broken when run from my FreeBSD shell, not being able to recognize all the disk partitions or something. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
