Re: Grub will not boot FreeBSD 5.1

[Chris Reichow]

Support is currently in the works, but in the interim you should be able 
to use:

title FreeBSD
root (hd0,1,a)
chainloader (hd0,1,a)+1

-Chris Reichow
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soneill wrote:

> I have installed grub 0.93 on my Debian 3.0r1 Linux system. I put grub on to
> a floppy to try it out, installed under /boot/grub. I built a menu.lst file
> to allow me to boot to my Win98, RedHat7.2 and SuSe7.2 partitions, as well
> as my FreeBSD 5.1 slice. 
>
> On startup, grub presents me with the selection list, and I can successfully
> boot into any of the choices, except FreeBSD. When that is selected, grub
> goes to the designated drive and partition( my second hard drive, 1st
> partition), then immediately returns with the message "Filesystem type
> unknown, Partition type 0xa5". This, of course, _is_ the partition type of a
> FreeBSD slice. I don't understand why grub thinks it can't boot this type of
> partition. I even went to the trouble of downloading and compiling grub 0.93
> from source to see if the precompiled version I had was broken. This didn't
> help either.
>
> For your information, the FreeBSD stanza in my menu.lst is:
> # (4) FreeBSD:
> title  FreeBSD
> root   (hd1,0,a)
> kernel /boot/loader
>
> I would appreciate any help you can give me in getting grub to boot my
> FreeBSD installation. Thanks in advance.
>
> Steve O'Neill
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