Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:46:32 -0800 (PST) From: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2) Message-ID: <196932.3036.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20081113112137.GA19089@icarus.home.lan>
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--- On Thu, 11/13/08, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> > Subject: Re: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2) > To: "Unga" <unga888@yahoo.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 7:21 PM > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:16:40AM -0800, Unga wrote: > > --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Jeremy Chadwick > <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > > How about asking the GNU GRUB folks if GRUB 0.97 > supports > > > UFS2? > > > > > It seems some old version of GRUB on a old version of > FreeBSD has worked: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-May/006944.html > > > > > Also, GRUB is up to 1.96, and does work with > amd64. The > > > port is > > > horribly outdated. > > > > > I don't mind try GRUB 1.96. The problem is I have > never used GRUB2 and I have no idea how to configure it. Is > there a good notes/documentation on how to use GRUB2? What > I need basically is where to put files (eg. stage1, stage2 > and *_stage1_5 of GRUB1 in /boot/grub/.) and a sample > configuration file. Anyway meanwhile I'll try to find > some documentation. > > > > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ > > > > > I got my file from above location. > > I think these kinds of questions should probably go to the > GNU GRUB > folks though, don't you think? I don't mean to > sound like I'm stepping > on your efforts, but the sysutils/grub port has very little > to it > (meaning, issues/problems of this type should very likely > be issues with > GRUB itself and not with the port or FreeBSD). > Well, I thought FreeBSD guys use GRUB. Its easy to communicate with those who use FreeBSD rather than those who use Linux and discuss mostly on a theoretical basis. I mostly wanted to know does GRUB works for other FreeBSD users. If so, I could investigate what went wrong on mine. Btw, I did not use the port, its straight away compiled from sources. That I mentioned as the first line in my original post. Regards Unga
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