Re: grub on FreeBSD
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC grub can't see UFS2, only UFS. I belive there is a work around though. google for it GRUB has been able to read UFS2 filesystems for a long time. That doesn't help Ask with his particular problem though. -- Christian Laursen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grub on FreeBSD
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: Hi, I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems. I installed grub from ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card. Booting on a Soekris box and running grub, I get this: grub root (hd0,1) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 grub root (hd0,1,a) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 It seems like it can't read the ufs filesystem? Any ideas? Did you copy the stage1, stage2, and ufs2_stage1_5 files to /boot/grub on the CF card? As I understand it, grub needs these files to understand UFS2. Just a guess. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
grub on FreeBSD
Hi, I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems. I installed grub from ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card. Booting on a Soekris box and running grub, I get this: grub root (hd0,1) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 grub root (hd0,1,a) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 It seems like it can't read the ufs filesystem? Any ideas? - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grub on FreeBSD
On 5/29/06, Ask Bjørn Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems. I installed grub from ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card. Booting on a Soekris box and running grub, I get this: grub root (hd0,1) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 grub root (hd0,1,a) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 It seems like it can't read the ufs filesystem? Any ideas? IIRC grub can't see UFS2, only UFS. I belive there is a work around though. google for it -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install GRUB for FreeBSD
Anyone know how to install GRUB for FreeBSD when you can't boot to it? I am totally lost now guys with the booting. FreeBSD bootloader has me so frustrated Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD loader has me lost after weeks :( I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader won't go away! :( Someone please tell me what the best way to install grub is I guess you need it in the MBR but where will the menu.lst be stored? Please help thx __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
hi! On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:08:08 -0400 (EDT) John Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to install GRUB for FreeBSD when you can't boot to it? you need at least one bootable operating system. try a livecd if youre system doesnt boot at all. I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader won't go away! :( make sure you install it to the correct disk! Someone please tell me what the best way to install grub is I guess you need it in the MBR but where will the menu.lst be stored? AFAIK grub has problems with reading ufs (please correct me if i'm wrong! maybe it's just because my grub version is a bit old ;) ). you can get around this by putting the grub config on a partition grub can read (like ext2fs or fat32) and then just chainload the freebsd loader installed into the freebsd partition. of course this is not the best solution but it works for me :) greets, jonas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
John Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD loader has me lost after weeks :( I know both enough to say that BSD's is way more intuitive and much simpler to configure and install. I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader won't go away! :( I've made mine go away several times. Note that you shouldn't need to get rid of the MBR on the second disk, with Grub on the first. I don't know if Grub can be made to boot the second disk's MBR, or not. Probably. Someone please tell me what the best way to install grub is I guess you need it in the MBR but where will the menu.lst be stored? It starts out on a floppy file system. Then you either just boot off the floppy, or you install it to the hard disk MBR, other first-track sectors, and maybe your OS's root FS. I don't recall if you need a menu.lst or not. That is, I don't know if Grub can be installed only to the first track, or needs the menu.lst in an FS; it seems like a bad requirement, if so. You might search the Internet for a pre-build Grub floppy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
jonas wrote: AFAIK grub has problems with reading ufs (please correct me if i'm wrong! maybe it's just because my grub version is a bit old ;) ). you can get around this by putting the grub config on a partition grub can read (like ext2fs or fat32) and then just chainload the freebsd loader installed into the freebsd partition. of course this is not the best solution but it works for me :) greets, jonas I use grub installed on a ufs filesystem and it has absolutely no problems reading config files, stages, or splash screens from it. Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: It starts out on a floppy file system. Then you either just boot off the floppy, or you install it to the hard disk MBR, other first-track sectors, and maybe your OS's root FS. I don't recall if you need a menu.lst or not. That is, I don't know if Grub can be installed only to the first track, or needs the menu.lst in an FS; it seems like a bad requirement, if so. In order for grub to work as a menu, it requires a stage 2 loader that resides somewhere on your hardrive outside of the MBR. It's my understanding that grub was too big to fit just in the MBR and that necessitated this arrangement. If you don't mind manually typing in commands such as root(hdx,x,x) and kernel /boot/loader then you don't need grub installed anywhere other than the MBR. Though the ufs stage 1.5 might cause problems with freebsd in that regard. I haven't tried grub without /some/ aspect of it installed to a freebsd partition. Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install GRUB for FreeBSD
Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In order for grub to work as a menu, it requires a stage 2 loader that resides somewhere on your hardrive outside of the MBR. It's my understanding that grub was too big to fit just in the MBR and that necessitated this arrangement. If you don't mind manually typing in Yeah, but I definitely remember that Grub installs stuff on other sectors of the first track, probably staring with the second sector. So it should be able to store the menu stuff there too, but I don't know if it actual can (I also had it using the menu file in /boot/boot/grub, I think it was for some odd reason). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grub and FreeBSD
Hello, I'm trying to get Grub running on 5.3-rc2 but I keep getting Error 29: Disk write error. I'm trying to install it directly to the MBR. I can't use the floppy method because there is one. I can use the FreeBSD loader but I'd like to use grub. This is the only OS on the laptop. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it. My fstab looks like this... bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1d /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/cd0/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 This is the contents of /boot/grub... bash-2.05b$ ls /boot/grub/ device.mapfat_stage1_5 iso9660_stage1_5 menu.lst reiserfs_stage1_5 stage2vstafs_stage1_5 e2fs_stage1_5 ffs_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5stage1 ufs2_stage1_5 xfs_stage1_5 bash-2.05b$ This is what I entered in the Grub CLI.. bash-2.05b$ grub grub GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub root (hd0,0, Possible partitions are: Partition num: 0, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow] BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'f', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 grub root (hd0,0,a) Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 grub setup (hd0) Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 exists... yes Running embed /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 (hd0)... failed (this is not fatal) Running embed /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 (hd0,0,a)... failed (this is not fatal) Running install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst ... failed Error 29: Disk write error grub quit This e-mail message, including any attachment(s), is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. Lightship Telecom / www.lightship.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grub and FreeBSD
In the last episode (Nov 04), Briggaman, Jason said: I'm trying to get Grub running on 5.3-rc2 but I keep getting Error 29: Disk write error. I'm trying to install it directly to the MBR. I can't use the floppy method because there is one. I can use the FreeBSD loader but I'd like to use grub. This is the only OS on the laptop. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it. I always make a grub boot disk, then install onto the hard drive from that. I don't trust the userland grub CLI to get my devicenames right. But if you have only one OS, there's no need for grub at all.. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble installing grub on FreeBSD 5.1
I'm trying to setup FreeBSD 5.1 on my Dell C640, dual booting with Windows 2000. I cannot get grub to install. When I run grub-install, it churns for a few seconds and comes back with: /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. I have verified all of the files are in /boot/grub and made sure / was UFS1, NOT UFS2. (Tried both ways actually.) It installs fine on FreeBSD 4.8 without changing anything else about the drive arrangement. On 4.8 I have to change /boot/grub/devices.map to /dev/rad0. This does not seem to work for 5.1. Any help appreciated. Stephen Hoover Dallas, Texas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
grub and FreeBSD
I was trying to do a grub-install /dev/ad0 but only get /dev/ad0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
