Re: Cant boot FreeBSD from Linux. - Thanks

[reg]

> On Monday 22 December 2003 02:53, address@hidden wrote:
> > Is it REALLY true that GRUB doesn't understand FreeBSD partition
> > types, and can't boot FreeBSD???
> 
> Yes. FreeBSD 5.x should use UFS2 as your filesystem, and GRUB simply 
> does not support that filesystem (yet). For now, you can boot it via 
> chainloader like Windows.
> 
> Well, what's happening on UFS2 support? I thought some people were 
> working on adding the support into GRUB, but I haven't heard anything 
> for a while...
> 
> Okuji
> 

Thanks, that works.

I would have never guessed that there was something in the boot record at
the right place for the chainloader to work...


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