Re: GRUB with FreeBSD/UFS2

[Bean]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Adam Jacob Muller <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am experimenting a bit with using GRUB to boot FreeBSD and having some
> extremely strange issues.
>
> # newfs /dev/ad1s1a
> /dev/ad1s1a: 96.1MB (196772 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
>        using 4 cylinder groups of 24.03MB, 1538 blks, 3136 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>  160, 49376, 98592, 147808
> # mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt
> # mount
> ...
> /dev/ad1s1a on /mnt (ufs, local)
> #
>
>
> so we have a valid/good UFS filesystem here.
>
>
> However:
> grub> geometry (hd1)
> drive 0x81: C/H/S = 1017/127/62, The number of sectors = 8013457, /dev/sdb
>   Partition num: 0, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow]
>     BSD Partition num: 'a',  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5
>
>
> grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)
>
> Any ideas what could be causing this?

Hi,

The ufs driver of grub legacy have bugs, please try grub2.

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Bean