On December 9, 2003 10:56 pm, clemens@xxxxxxx wrote: > Help! > I have done this before with Lilo, and probbly GRUB, but right > now I cant boot a FreeBSD partition on my disk. > > Here is the info in grub.conf: > > # ======hda2============================================ > title FreeBSD 5.1 > root (hd0,1,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > # ======hda1============================================ > and here is the /sbin/fdisk /dev/hda > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hda: 36.5 GB, 36529274880 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4441 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 254 2040223+ 6 FAT16 > /dev/hda2 * 255 763 4088542+ a5 FreeBSD > /dev/hda4 764 4441 29543535 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hda5 764 1000 1903671 6 FAT16 > /dev/hda6 1001 1510 4096543+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 1511 2020 4096543+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda8 2021 2084 514048+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda9 2085 4441 18932571 83 Linux > > # ====================================================== > > As they always say: This used to work. > > Now I am getting the error message: > > Booting 'FreeBSD 5.1' > root (hd0,1,a) > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 > kernel /boot/loader > > Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition > > Press any key to continue... > > Now a Partition type of 0xa5 *IS* a FreeBSD partition, so I > dont understand why grub doesnt understand it. Im looking at > the code, and it LOOKS like I might have to specify a BSD file > type rather than FreeBSD, but its not obvious what... > > This RH9, grub-0.93-4 Hi, I am not using FreeBSD, but there is an article on booting it from Grub in the Dec issue of Linux Mag. If I am reading it correctly, your grub.conf line: > root (hd0,1,a) should be: root (hd0,a) [or maybe (hd0,0,a)] because the second field, if present, indicates the FreeBSD slice, and a 1 would be slice2 on that disk, but according to your fdisk output, it is the only FreeBSD slice (x86 partition). Hope that helps. (I looked at the Linux magazine site, but current issues are not availble on line.) -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
