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Re: Cant boot FreeBSD from Linux. - Thanks
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reg |
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Re: Cant boot FreeBSD from Linux. - Thanks |
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Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:54:40 -0700 |
> 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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Reg.Clemens
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