I have Windows XP and Linux already installed on my Laptop and want to also install FreeBSD (by the way I'm new to FreeBSD but quite experimented with Linux). I successfully installed FreeBSD on a primary partition (slice) with most of the default options. However I did choose to leave the MBR untouched because I want to boot FreeBSD with GRUB. I can boot Linux and Windows without problems from GRUB, but can't boot FreeBSD.
Here is my partition layout (from Linux's fdisk) # fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 2015 16185456 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 2373 3648 10249470 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 2016 2372 2867602+ a5 FreeBSD /dev/hda5 2373 2435 506016 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 2436 2467 257008+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 2468 3187 5783368+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 3188 3353 1333363+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 3354 3647 2361523+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
And my Grub configuration concerning FreeBSD
# For booting FreeBSD title FreeBSD 5.2 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader
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
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
But I can succesfully mount it under FreeBSD booting with the fixit floppy.
Is there a way to install FreeBSD's bootloader on a floppy to boot my installed system?
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.
Olivier
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Finally, the following GRUB configuration did it.
# For booting FreeBSD title FreeBSD 5.2 root (hd0,2) chainloader +1
Olivier
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