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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2006 16:59:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= <ask@develooper.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grub on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20060530165859.C75971@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>
In-Reply-To: <0C7E3E70-0CBE-4F2E-8734-BE355E807456@develooper.com>
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On Mon, 29 May 2006, Ask Bj=F8rn Hansen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Fla=
sh=20
> card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems.  I installed grub from=
=20
> ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF ca=
rd.
>
> Booting on a Soekris box and running grub, I get this:
>
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5
>
> grub> root (hd0,1,a)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5
>
> It seems like it can't read the ufs filesystem?   Any ideas?

Did you copy the "stage1", "stage2", and "ufs2_stage1_5" files
to /boot/grub on the CF card?
As I understand it, grub needs these files to understand UFS2.
Just a guess.

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