On Wednesday 14 December 2005 21:42, Micah wrote:
> I used chainloading for a while until I wanted multiple installs of
> FreeBSD on the same drive. Using chainloading from grub always booted
> the first FreeBSD regardless of which slice was specified in menu.lst.
> Changing it to use /boot/loader
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:52:33PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> grub reported:
>
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5
>
> and thus cannot mount /boot/loader
You are correct. Old versions of grub don't know about UFS2 filesystem.
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Roberto Nunnari wrote:
One more note.. let's call 'bad' the pc that grub doesn't
like and ok the others.. and note that the two pc have
identical disk drives.. so..
bad# fdisk
*** Working on device /dev/ad0 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=29777 heads=16 sec
One more note.. let's call 'bad' the pc that grub doesn't
like and ok the others.. and note that the two pc have
identical disk drives.. so..
bad# fdisk
*** Working on device /dev/ad0 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=29777 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks
Hi Micah and Harley,
Thanks for your answer.
Humm.. I don't have any other grub on my path, and running
which returns:
# which grub
/usr/local/sbin/grub
The ports were updated quite recently.. in occasion of
last update world.
I did some more testing.. the strange thing is that I use
the same
RW wrote:
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 16:36, Micah wrote:
Some of the grubs that ship with Linux distros
do not support ufs.
I'm curious as to why people care about this so much. There are numerous
threads about whether or not particular bootloaders support UFS.
A bootloader needs to
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 16:36, Micah wrote:
> Some of the grubs that ship with Linux distros
> do not support ufs.
I'm curious as to why people care about this so much. There are numerous
threads about whether or not particular bootloaders support UFS.
A bootloader needs to understand
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:36 -0800, Micah wrote:
> Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> > Hello list.
> >
> > Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list.
> > Thank you.
> >
> > I have a old grub floppy that I use time to time to
> > boot/recover pc with different OS.. Today I wanted to
> > boot a
Roberto Nunnari wrote:
Hello list.
Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list.
Thank you.
I have a old grub floppy that I use time to time to
boot/recover pc with different OS.. Today I wanted to
boot a freebsd 5.3-RELEASE-p23 box, but to my surprise
grub reported:
Filesystem type
Hello list.
Please also reply to my mailbox, as I'm not on the list.
Thank you.
I have a old grub floppy that I use time to time to
boot/recover pc with different OS.. Today I wanted to
boot a freebsd 5.3-RELEASE-p23 box, but to my surprise
grub reported:
Filesystem type unknown, partition type
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