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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:11:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Werner Koch <wk@isil.d.shuttle.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GRUB and rootdev
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204121107.15689D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980203172243.56143@isil.d.shuttle.de>

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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Werner Koch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> While trying to port a program to FreeBSD (I'm a Linux and Hurd user),
> I installed FreeBSD on a free partiton (Snapshot from 2.2.97).
> 
> I use GRUB as boot loader and have the problem, that GRUB does not know
> of the the FreeBSD filesystem (It's new I guess).  I installed the kernel
> on a Linux disk and I'm able to boot this kernel .. the problem is
> (of course) that it can't mount it's root device.  So how can I set
> the rootdevice into the kernel image or which argument I can give to
> kernel?

you're doing it the wrong way -- you need to hack GRUB to recognize the
FreeBSD FS.  FreeBSD does not support any other root filesystem type other
than UFS (with exception, but the Linux FS isn't one of them).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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