Dual-boot does not work with GRUB

Tillman Hodgson tillman at seekingfire.com
Mon Dec 22 16:58:18 PST 2003


On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:52:46AM +0100, Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote:
> I've got the following error:
> 
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5
> Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
> 
> Does GRUB have some problems with FreeBSD partition ?

I recently ran into the same problem - I found the solution in an
archived posting to the bug-grub@ mailing list (from Sergey Matveychuk
on Sep 25 2003, if you're interested).

Try this:

 rootnoverify (hd0,1)
 chainloader +1

-T


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